The Tarlis incident was the killing of 17 ethnically-Bulgarian peasants by a Greek officer on July 27, 1924, at Tarlis (present-day Vathytopos), a mountain village in the Kato Nevrokopi, region near the Greco-Bulgarian border. == Background == Tarlis (Τърлис), Loftsa (Ловча) and Karakioi (Каракьой) were three ethnically-Bulgarian villages that had remained inside Greek territory after the Greco-Bulgarian border had been drawn in accordance with the Treaty of Bucharest (1913).
The Tarlis incident was the killing of 17 ethnically-Bulgarian peasants by a Greek officer on July 27, 1924, at Tarlis (present-day Vathytopos), a mountain village in the Kato Nevrokopi, region near the Greco-Bulgarian border. == Background == Tarlis (Τърлис), Loftsa (Ловча) and Karakioi (Каракьой) were three ethnically-Bulgarian villages that had remained inside Greek territory after the Greco-Bulgarian border had been drawn in accordance with the Treaty of Bucharest (1913).
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