A view of Serbian-Bulgarian relations at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century

Abstract

The roots of Serbo-Bulgarian relations date back from the medieval period. The political relations between Serbs and Bulgarians were interrupted after the Turkish conquest of a part of South-East Europe. The beginning of a new kind of relations intensifies during the 19th century. The Serbo-Bulgarian relations in the 19th and at the turn of the 20th century range from mutual support in the fight for the national recognition and independence of the two nations which was manifested in the diplomatic, economical, cultural and educational field, to intensity, political conflicts, war propaganda and direct armed conflicts. This study deals with the analysis of the Serbo-Bulgarian relations from the Great Eastern Crisis (1875-1878), through the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885 and solving the problems related to solving the Macedonian Question, until the end of World War I and the signing of the peace treaty by The Kingdom of SHS and the Kingdom of Bulgaria in the Paris suburb Neuillysur-Seine. Analyzing certain important political and geopolitical questions of Belgrade and Sofia which appeared in the bilateral relations between the two countries in the aforementioned period it was tried to point out all the complexity of the Serbo-Bulgarian relations on which the safety and stability of Balkan peninsula depended to a great extent.