Incident at Petrich
| Incident at Petrich | |||||||||
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Demir Kapia, where the original incident took place. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Greece Great Britain League of Nations | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Boris III Aleksandar Tsankov Ivan Mihailov |
Pavlos Kountouriotis Theodoros Pangalos | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 10,000 soldiers | 20,000 soldiers | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 50 dead (Mostly civilians, nationality unknown) | 121 dead | ||||||||
The Incident at Petrich (Greek: Επεισόδιο του Πετριτσίου; Bulgarian: Петрички инцидент), or the War of the Stray Dog (Greek: Πόλεμος του αδέσποτου σκύλου), 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. The incident ended after a decision by the League of Nations.