Figure 1.--This press photo shows three women and two children showing bullet wounds received from the battle in Petrich, Bulgaria. One little boy has his shirt lifted, showing a bullet wound that entered in his right side and passing out the left. And two young women showing bullet wounds in their feet. Victims and collateral damage of war. .

Bulgarian Prime-Minister Stamboliiski's vision was a multi-ethnic Balkan peasant federation. A correct relationship with Yugoslavia required confronting the powerful Macedonian extremist movement which wanted ab independent country. Stamboliiski began a 2-year effort to supress IMRO (1921). Yugoslavia and Bulgaria agreed at the Nis Convention to cooperate in supressing extremist groups. Complicating this was Bulgaria's relationship wuth Grrce.Stamboliiski was less sucessful in developing a new relationship with Greece. A serious border incident developed requiring League of Nations adjudication (1925). An incident at Petrich, at the time called the War of the Stray Dog, was Greece's trucated invasion of Bulgaria near the border town Petrich (1925). The incident flowed from the minority problems caused a variety of disputes between Greece and Bulgaria in the inter-war era.

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