Post by kartadolofonos on Oct 27, 2009 2:27:42 GMT -5
On the evening of October 26, day of the feast of the patron and protector of the city Agios Dimitrios, Thessaloniki was liberated by the Greek army just twenty days after the declaration of the First Balkan War and a few hours before the Bulgarian troops reached the turn in -- already Greek - Thessaloniki ... Before the delivery and the impending attack of the Greek army, the Ottoman military makers of Thessaloniki, led by Commander of the 8th corps of the Ottoman army, Hasan Tahsin Pasha, saw that potential and resistance would bring substantial results and made proposals for the delivery of Constantine. Besides from the Ottoman side was the preference of the surrender of the city to the Greeks because of the perception that the Bulgarians would have undertaken in violence against the Muslim population. Constantine, however, rejected the proposal and demanded Ottoman "unconditional" surrender of the city. At the same time Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos having knowledge of the movements of the Bulgarian 7th Division, which was close to Thessaloniki, warned the successor to expedite the process. So the night of 26 to 27 October 1912, delegates makers officers, Victor Dousmanis and Ioannis Metaxas, signed in Thessaloniki protocols surrender of the city by the Ottoman administration to the Greek army and the afternoon of October 27 they entered the Thessaloniki first two Greek parts Kleomenous the division.
