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Balkan Pact

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Also known as Balkan Entente

Balkan international cooperation organization

Key facts

Status
Military alliance
Historical era
Interwar
Formation
9 February 1934
Axis invasion of yugoslavia
6 April 1941

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Encyclopedic overview

The Balkan Pact, or Balkan Entente, was a treaty signed by Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia on 9 February 1934 in Athens, aimed at maintaining the geopolitical status quo in the region after the end of World War I. To present a united front against Bulgarian designs on their territories, the signatories agreed to suspend all disputed territorial claims against one another and their immediate neighbours following the aftermath of the war and a rise in various regional irredentist tensions.

Nations which refused to sign the treaty

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