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Incident at Petrich | |||||||||
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Demir Kapia, where the original incident took place. | |||||||||
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Bulgaria IMRO | Greece | ||||||||
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Boris III Aleksandar Tsankov Ivan Mihailov |
Pavlos Kountouriotis Theodoros Pangalos |
The Incident at Petrich (Greek: Επεισόδιο του Πετριτσίου; Bulgarian: Петрички инцидент), or the War of the Stray Dog (Greek: Πόλεμος του αδέσποτου σκύλου),[1] was a Greek–Bulgarian crisis in 1925 that resulted in a brief invasion of Bulgaria by Greece near the border town of Petrich after the killing of a Greek captain and a sentry by Bulgarian soldiers.[2] The incident ended after a decision by the League of Nations.
Greece. and Bulgaria have clashed, following a frontier incident, where a Greek captain and a sentry were shot dead at an outpost.
After attacking the Greek outpost and shooting the two men, the Bulgarians hoisted the white flag. They explained that the firing was due to a misunderstanding.
The Greco-Bulgarian frontier incident was caused by Bulgarian regulars attacking a Greek outpost at Belesh and shooting dead a sentry and a captain.