Second Balkan War
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Was a war fought by Bulgary against a coalition of Balkan states. During the First Balkan War the Balkan League had conquered most of the Ottoman Balkan territories. Bulgaria was dissatisfied by the territorial partition and invaded its former allies.
Chronology
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October 1913: Establishment of the Republic of Central Albania, a short-lived unrecognised state with its administrative centre in Durrës.
October 1913: Under British pressure, the Bulgaria and the Ottomans signed the Treaty of Constantinople, which satisfied the Turkish claims to recognition of Eastern Thrace and recognized Western Thrace as part of Bulgaria. The Ottomans withdrew their forces and by 25 October, and the area was returned by Bulgaria.
Was a Bulgarian military offensive in Greece during the Second Balkan War.
July 1913: The Greeks captured Dojran on 5 July.
June 1913: On the Bulgarian right, Greek Evzones (light infantry) captured Gevgelija and the heights of Matsikovo.
July 1913: On 19 July the Greeks captured Nevrokop.
June 1913: Bulgarian troops moved up to positions between Kilkis and the Struma River.
June 1913: The Bulgarian forces were forced to withdraw from their positions north of Thessaloniki (except the isolated battalion stationed in the city itself which was quickly overrun) to defensive positions between Kilkis and Struma river.
July 1913: The Greek forces with the support of their navy landed in Kavala.
July 1913: Greek entered Alexandroupoli, cutting off the Bulgarians completely from the Aegean sea.
Was a Romanian military offensive against Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War.
July 1913: Romanian cavalry forces entered Vrazhdebna.
July 1913: The Romanians and Serbs linked up at Belogradchik.
July 1913: On the night of 14-15 July, the Danube Army under Prince Ferdinand of Romania crossed into Bulgaria at Oryahovo, Gigen and Nikopol.
July 1913: The Romanian cavalry occupied the port city of Varna.
July 1913: On 18 July, Romanian forces occupied the city of Ferdinand, which is known today as Montana.
July 1913: On 20 July Greek forces occupied Vratsa.
July 1913: On the day of Romania's declaration of War, 80,000 men of the 5th Corps under General Ioan Culcer invaded Dobruja, occupying a front from Tutrakan to Balchik.
Was an Ottoman military offensive against Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War.
July 1913: Edirne is occupied by the Ottomans on 23 July.
August 1913: The Ottoman armies crossed into Bulgarian territory. A cavalry unit advanced on Yambol.
July 1913: Ottoman troops garrisoning Çatalca and Gelibolu reached the Enos-Midia line.
Was a Serb military offensive against Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War.
July 1913: Bulgarians stopped the Serbian offensive in Macedonia at Kalimanci.
Was a Greek military offensive against Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War.
July 1913: The Greek forces continued their march inland into western Thrace and they entered Xanthi.
July 1913: After bitter fighting the Greek side managed to break through the Kresna pass and captured Simitli.
July 1913: Greek conquest of Komotini.
July 1913: The Bulgarian army, under heavy pressure by Greek forces, was forced to abandon Gorna Dzhumaya.
Was the treaty that ended the Second Balkan War.
August 1913: Bulgarians stopped the Serbian offensive in Macedonia at Kalimanci.
August 1913: The Sofia government obtained the Blagoevgrad district and a part of Western Thrace.
August 1913: In 1913, as a result of the Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria ceded southern Dobruja to Romania.
August 1913: The European borders of Turkey were set with the Treaty of Bucarest that ended the Second Balkan War.
August 1913: The eastern frontier of Serbia was drawn from the top of Patarika and followed the watershed between the Vardar and Struma rivers to the Greek-Bulgarian border, except for the Strumica valley which remained in Bulgaria.
August 1913: After the First Balkan War of 1912, territories of Kosovo and north-western Macedonia were internationally recognised as a part of Serbia and northern Metohija as a part of Montenegro at the Treaty of London of May 1913. The final borders were ratified at the Treaty of Bucharest of 1913.
August 1913: The border between Greece and Bulgaria was drawn from the Belasica crest at the mouth of the Mesta river on the Aegean Sea, including large parts of Epirus, Macedonia and Thessaloniki.
August 1913: The island of Crete was definitively assigned to Greece.
August 1913: After the retreat of both the Bulgarian and Greek armies, an autonomous state was declared in Western Thrace with Ottoman support to prevent Bulgarian rule following the Treaty of Bucharest.
