The versailles system of peace treaties and the minority protection in Southeast Europe: The Bulgarian-Greek Convention for the exchange of population of 1919

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of the Convention for an exchange of population concluded between Bulgaria and Greece after the World War I. It compares the Convention with the other legal instruments concerning the protection of minorities, signed by Greece and Bulgaria at the same period of time. An effort is made to determine the place of these agreements in the wider landscape of the international regulation of minority rights in the aftermath of the Great War. The article also tends to uncover the origins of the idea for an exchange of population in the Treaties with similar content concluded during the Balkan Wars.