Valandovo affair (1915) – Bulgarian military provocation with Macedonian casualties and Serbian tortures. On 1/2. Ⅳ 1915, 3,000 Bulgarian soldiers, whose composition had Macedonian supreme, Albanian and Turkish troops, materially supported and encouraged by Austria-Hungary and Germany, attacked them and won the 15 villages in the triangle Strumica, Valandovo and Radovish. They attacked the railway station near the village Udovo, in order to demolish the bridges of the railway line Demir Kapija and Gevgelija, to prevent the important anticon crossing of the Serbian army through Macedonia for Thessaloniki. After the affair, the Bulgarian military authorities were several 5,508 Macedonian meat residents of the mentioned 15 villages. During the opposite, Serbian authorities committed unprecedented reprisals over the innocent Macedonian population in these landscapes. Lit.: V. Card, Valandovo and Valandovo throughout history, Skopje, 1972; A. Trajanovski, reprisals in Lakavian-Radovis region and triangle Strumica, Radovis and Valandovo (1912- 1915), “Intellant of Ini”, 46/2, Skopje, 2002. Al. TR.
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