Provisional Government of Western Thrace (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Provisional Government of Western Thrace (Ottoman Turkish: Garbi Trakya Hukumeti Muvakkatesi), later renamed to Independent Government of Western Thrace (Ottoman Turkish: Garbi Trakya Hukumeti Mustakilesi), was a small, short-lived unrecognized republic established in Western Thrace from August 31 to October 25, 1913. It encompassed the area surrounded by the rivers Maritsa (Evros) in the east, Mesta (Nestos) in the west, the Rhodope Mountains in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. Its total territory was c. 8.600 km . The territory was created during the Second Balkan War by a joint rebellion of Turks and Pomaks against the withdrawing Bulgarian forces who had recently annexed the region. It survived for 3 months, between two Balkan treaties; between the May 1913 Treaty of London and the August 1913 Treaty of Bucharest that ended the Second Balkan War.