Treaty+of+Neuilly-Sur-Siene

By Catherine Wolf

The Treaty of Neuilly was the third peace treaty signed after the end of WW1 along with the Treaty of Versailles, Treaty of Saint-Germain, Treaty of Trianon & the Treaty of Sevres, which were meant to diminish the military & political strength of the defeated member of the Central Powers like Bulgaria. The old political boundary between Bulgaria & Serbia followed a chain of high mountain ridges, whereas the new one gave significant military & strategic advantages to the Serbs exposing dangerously the Bulgarian capitol of Sofia & therefore reducing significantly the military threat for eastern Serbia in case of a new Bulgarian invasion. ====In Neuilly-sur-seine (a French suburb) delegates from 21 countries, excluding Bulgaria met to decide the terms of the treaty. On November 27th 1919 the treaty was signed, which would become effective as of August 9th 1920. ====

- Thracian outlet to the Aegean Sea would be handed to Greece.
====- Restored areas of Macedonia that were invaded during the war by German & Bulgarian troops, to its previous owners; Greece & Yugoslavia. ====

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====- Loss of territory involved the transfer of 300 000 people - a direct contradiction to the policy of self-determination. ====

**IMPACT: **
====Of great significance to Greece, as its greatest opponent was weakened while it gained its lost strength. Created the conditions which granted Greece to later ask for Eastern Thrace. ====