370 Chapter 3
Participants: 355 Bulgaria/360 Romania
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: On August 10, 1926, a group of Bulgar Comitadjis crossed the border into
Romania and raided the village of Sakull Weichu. The Comitadjis were intercepted
by Romanian forces, captured, and led back across the border. Bulgaria subsequently
accused Romania of violating its territory with this action. An incursion into Romania
by Comitadjis recurred on July 23, and the Bulgarian government promised Roma-
nia that it would take energetic action against the rebels along its borders. While
Romania seemed to accept this response by Bulgaria as satisfactory, on August 4 it
declared a “state of siege” in a territory 18 miles wide on the Dobrudja frontier of
Bulgaria in order to stop raids by the Comitadjis. On the same day, Yugoslavia was
reported as having ordered its army commanders to pursue invading Comitadjis across
its border and into Bulgaria. After this incident, Yugoslavia, Romania, and Greece
issued a joint statement requesting that Bulgaria take a much more active stance
against the Bulgarian Comitadjis, and to make a more concerted effort to patrol its
borders in the future. Speculation about this note suggested that it might contain an
ultimatum, but it contained nothing of the sort. Bulgaria’s response to the note was
nothing but conciliatory and apologetic.
Coding changes: Start Date changed from July 8, 1926. End Date changed from July
23, 1926.
355 Bulgaria/365 Russia
MID#257
Started in July 1914. See the narrative in the 300 Austria-Hungary/345 Yugoslavia dyad
dispute list.
MID#397
Started in October 1914. See the narrative in the 345 Yugoslavia/355 Bulgaria dyad dis-
pute list.
MID#518
Dispute Number: 518
Date(s): March 3, 1941 to December 13, 1941
Participants: 355 Bulgaria/2 United States of America, 200 United Kingdom, 365
Russia
Outcome (and Settlement): Joins ongoing war (None)
Fatalities: Missing
Narrative: Following the failure of Italy’s invasion of Greece, Germany pressed Bul-
garia to renounce neutrality and join the Axis powers, which Bulgaria did on March