A Peace Conference met at Bukarest on July 28, and peace was signed on
August 10. By this Treaty of Bukarest Servia secured not only all that
part of Macedonia already under her occupation but gained also an
eastward extension beyond the Doiran-Istib-Kochana line into purely
Bulgarian territory. Greece fared still better under the treaty; for
it gave her not only all the Macedonian lands she had already occupied
but extended her domain on the Aegean littoral as far east as the mouth
of the Mesta and away into the interior as far above Seres and Drama as
they are from the sea,--thus establishing the northern frontier of New
Greece from Lake Presba (near the eastern boundary of Albania) on a
northward-ascending line past Ghevgheli and Doiran to Kainchal in
Thrace on the other {111} side of the Mesta River. This assignment of
territory conquered from Turkey had the effect of shutting out Bulgaria
from the Western Aegean; and the littoral left to Bulgaria between the
Mesta River and the Turkish boundary has no harbor of any consequence
but Dedeagach, which is much inferior to Kavala.
The new Turkish boundary was arranged by negotiations between the
Bulgarian and Ottoman governments. The terminus on the Black Sea was
pushed north from Midia almost up to the southern boundary of Bulgaria.
Enos remained the terminus on the Aegean. But the two termini were
connected by a curved line which after following the Maritza River to a
point between Sufli and Dimotika then swung in a semicircle well beyond
Adrianople to Bulgaria and the Black Sea. Thus Bulgaria was compelled
to cede back to the Asiatic enemy not only Adrianople but the
battlefields of Kirk Kilisse, Lule Burgas, and Chorlu on which {112}
her brave soldiers had won such magnificent victories over the Moslems.