Balkan Pact

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The Balkan Pact was a 1934 mutual defense alliance between Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia aimed at preserving the post–World War I territorial status quo in the Balkans.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Balkan Entente 1
Balkan Pact canonical 1
Balkan Pact (1953) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf intergovernmental organization
military alliance
mutual defense treaty
regional security arrangement
aimedAt preservation of the post–World War I territorial status quo in the Balkans
alsoKnownAs Balkan Pact
surface form: Balkan Entente

Balkan Pact
surface form: Entente of the Balkan States
concernedWith security of Balkan borders
countrySignatory Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Romania
Yugoslavia
surface form: Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Turkey
surface form: Republic of Turkey
dateSigned 1934-02-09
diminishedAfter Axis expansion in Europe
diplomaticGoal strengthening cooperation among non-revisionist Balkan states
enteredIntoForceInYear 1934
focus defense against external aggression rather than internal disputes
geopoliticalRole coordination of foreign policy among member states
hasMemberState Greece
Romania
Turkey
Yugoslavia
historicalContext post–World War I European order
historicalPeriod interwar period
languageOfTreaty French
locatedIn Balkans
notInclude Albania
Bulgaria
Italy
opposedTo territorial revisionism in the Balkans
placeSigned Athens
politicalOrientation status quo alliance
purpose containment of revisionist states in Europe
maintenance of regional stability
mutual defense against aggression in the Balkans
regionServed Balkans
surface form: Balkan Peninsula
relatedTo League of Nations collective security system
Little Entente
Treaty of Lausanne
signatoryFormOfGovernment monarchy in Greece
monarchy in Romania
monarchy in Yugoslavia
republic in Turkey
status defunct
typeOfAgreement collective security agreement
weakenedBy German expansionism
Italian expansionism
yearSigned 1934

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kingdom of Romania memberOf Balkan Pact
Balkan Pact alsoKnownAs Balkan Pact
this entity surface form: Balkan Entente
Balkan Pact alsoKnownAs Balkan Pact
this entity surface form: Entente of the Balkan States
Treaties of Yugoslavia hasPart Balkan Pact
this entity surface form: Balkan Pact (1953)