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| Incident at Petrich | |||||||||
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 Demir Kapia, where the original incident took place. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Bulgaria IMRO |
 Greece | ||||||||
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Boris III Aleksandar Tsankov Ivan Mihailov |
Pavlos Kountouriotis Theodoros Pangalos | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 10,000 soldiers [citation needed] | 30,000 soldiers [citation needed] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 50 combatants/civilians killed [citation needed] | 121 killed or captured [1] | ||||||||
The Incident at Petrich (Greek: Επεισόδιο του Πετριτσίου; Bulgarian: Петрички инцидент), or the War of the Stray Dog (Greek: Πόλεμος του αδέσποτου σκύλου),[2] 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.[3] The incident ended after a decision by the League of Nations.
- ^ Mihaylov, Ivan. Спомени III. Освободителна борба 1924 - 1934, Leuven, 1967, pp. 584-585.
- ^ Elaine Thomopoulos (2011). The History of Greece. The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations. ABC-CLIO. p. 110. ISBN 978-0313375125 – via Google Books.
- ^ "LATEST CABLES". The Western Star and Roma Advertiser. Toowoomba, Qld. 24 October 1925. p. 2. Retrieved 26 June 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
Greece. and Bulgaria have clashed, following a frontier incident, where a Greek captain and a sentry were shot dead at an outpost.
- "TROUBLE ON GREEK FRONTIER". The Northern Standard. Darwin, NT. 23 October 1925. p. 3. Retrieved 26 June 2013 – via National Library of Australia.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.
- "BULGARIA EXPLAINS". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW. 22 October 1925. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2013 – via National Library of Australia.The Greco-Bulgarian frontier incident was caused by Bulgarian regulars attacking a Greek outpost at Belesh and shooting dead a sentry and a captain.