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Treaty of Constantinople (1913)

Name: Treaty of Constantinople (1913)
Start: 1913

Treaty · 1913

The Treaty of Constantinople (Treaty of İstanbul) was a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria signed on 29 September 1913 after the Second Balkan War at the Ottoman capital Constantinople, modern İstanbul.

About the event

Type	Peace treaty
Signed	29 September 1913
Place of signing	Istanbul
Parties	Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Bulgaria

The treaty

Bulgaria acknowledged Ottoman gains of Adrianople (modern Edirne), Kırklareli and Didymoteicho and the surrounding territory.
The Ottoman Empire ceded the port of Dedeagach (modern Alexandroupoli) to Bulgaria.
The exchange of lands was to be completed within 10 days.
The armies on the border would be demobilized within three weeks.
Prisoners of war from both sides would be released.
Both political and economic ties between the two countries would be reestablished.

This event in the atlas

Took place during the reign of Mehmed V (1909–1918). Mehmed V

The atlas records this territorial change for the year:

− Macedonia (Skopje–Bitola) (loss, 1913)
− Southern and Central Albania (Vlorë–Berat–Elbasan) (loss, 1913)
− Aegean Islands (Lesbos–Lemnos–Samos) (loss, 1913)
− Chios (loss, 1913)
− Western Thrace (Komotini–Kavala) (loss, 1913)
− Thessaloniki–Chalkidiki–Mount Athos (loss, 1913)
− Kosovo (loss, 1913)
− Northern Albania (Krujë–Shkodër) (loss, 1913)
− Ioannina (Epirus) (loss, 1913)
− Crete (loss, 1913)

Open the reign of Mehmed V on the map

Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), adapted for the atlas.