Haliacmon-Aoös line

The Haliacmon-Aoös line was a proposed demarcation line in Greek foreign policy during the Great Eastern Crisis. It connects the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea along the rivers Haliacmon and Aoös. Due to British diplomatic pressure, Greece initially elected to remain neutral in the crisis, but expected some territorial compensation in the form of advancing the Greek border northwards to the Haliacmon-Aoös line.[1][2]

In the end, following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 and the Treaty of Berlin, Greece's demands were only partially fulfilled with the Annexation of Thessaly and Arta.

References
  1. Vakalopoulos, Kostandinos A (1988). Modern History of Macedonia (1830-1912). Thessaloniki: Barbounakis. p. 106. Thus there was considerable British diplomatic activity on the one hand, while a strong likelihood existed on the other of a rapprochement between Greece and Turkey. Against this background, King George I held a meeting with Wyndham, the British charge d'affaires in Athens, and agreed that the northern frontier of the Greek state should consist of the course of the River Aliakmon from the Thermaic Gulf to the Lake of Kastoria, and from there should follow the course of the River Aoos as far as the Adriatic.
  2. Данова, Надя. „Националният въпрос в гръцките политически програми през XIX век“. София, „Наука и изкуство“, 1980. Индекс 942/999, стр. 231-232
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