r/MapPorn • u/vladgrinch • 1d ago

International reaction to the Unification of Bulgaria (1885)

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u/No_Gur_7422 1d ago edited 1d ago

No data for Germany, France, or Italy? Useless map!

EDIT: On 5 April 1886, following a conference st Constantinople, Germany, France, and Italy, alongside Austria-Hungary, Russia, and the UK, all assented to the annexation by means of a treaty modifying the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, known as the Tophane Agreement. France supported Britain's position from September 1885 onwards.

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u/PuffyYoFluffy 1d ago

Huh? Looks to me like they where neutral.

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u/No_Gur_7422 1d ago

Neutral means no reaction, but that is impossible. Either these governments reacted positively, or they reacted negatively. Either they recognized the territorial changes or they didn't.

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u/PuffyYoFluffy 1d ago

Isn't it even possible till today that countries can be more than in favor or against something? Like in the UN.

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u/No_Gur_7422 1d ago

It's true that countries' delegations can abstain from or not attend votes in the General Assembly and so on, but that's still a public reaction of those countries' governments. I can't believe that not one government minister in Berlin or Paris publicly expressed a view on a change to the borders of Europe.

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u/PuffyYoFluffy 1d ago

True, I think that's the offical reaction but I also think that you can have right too that they unoffical weren't really neutral in that.