Provisional Government of Western Thrace
| Garbi Trakya Hükûmet-i Müstakilesi Prosorini Kyvernisi Dytikis Thrakis |
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| غربی تراقیا حكومت مستقلهسی Προσωρινή Κυβέρνηση Δυτικής Θράκης |
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| Provisional, later Independent | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Komotini | |||||||||
| Government | Provisional Government under a Republic system | |||||||||
| President | Hoca Salih Efendi | |||||||||
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| • | Established | August 31, 1913 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | October 25, 1913 | ||||||||
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| ¹ Renamed from "Provisional Government of Western Thrace" and some researchers used term of "Republic of Gumuljina" and the "Turkish Republic of Western Thrace". | ||||||||||
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The Provisional Government of Western Thrace (Ottoman Turkish: غربی تراقیا حكومت موقتهسی - Garbi Trakya Hükûmet-i Muvakkatesi, Greek: Προσωρινή Κυβέρνηση Δυτικής Θράκης, Prosorini Kyvernisi Dytikis Thrakis, Turkish: Batı Trakya Geçici Hükûmeti), later renamed to Independent Government of Western Thrace (Ottoman Turkish: غربی تراقیا حكومت مستقلهسی - Garbi Trakya Hükûmet-i Müstakilesi, Greek: Αυτόνομη Κυβέρνηση Δυτικής Θράκης, Avtonomi Kyvernisi Dytikis Thrakis), was a small, short-lived partially recognized republic established in Western Thrace from August 31 to October 25, 1913. It encompassed the area surrounded by the rivers Maritsa (Evros) in the east, Mesta (Nestos) in the west, the Rhodope Mountains in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. Its total territory was c. 8.600 km².
This administration was created after the Second Balkan War when Western Thrace was occupied by the Ottoman Empire after invitation by the local Turks, Greeks and Pomaks. Greece received a similar appeal but did not commit any forces to Thrace. The state was officially recognized by Bulgaria, Greece and the Ottoman Empire during the period.
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