1. Bogotic suffered significant population decline as a result of the Balkan Wars

2. Balkan Wars: Wars occurring between 1912-1913 where the small Balkan states teamed up to seize land from the declining Ottoman Empire and then fought amongst themselves as they divided up the territory

3. Bulgarians had high mobilization capabilities (of about 500.000 people out of 4.000.000 population), experienced and with military tradition from the two Balkan Wars, WWI and long guerrilla wars for the mixed population neighbouring areas

4. Balkan Wars - two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in …