The two countries have problems with defining their river border and with the division of the islands on the Danube. It is remarkable how the last time they reached agreement on these issues was in … 1908.
Spaska Shumanova
This article deals with the issue of defining the border between Bulgaria and Romania on the Danube. Attempts by the two neighbouring countries to resolve the issue of the border and the membership of the islands on the Danube in the second half of the 20th century – through regular bilateral meetings between party leaders and government representatives from Bulgaria and Romania, as well as numerous discussions in joint expert commissions – have failed to resolve the controversial issue and to date the Romanian-Bulgarian river border continues to be established on the basis of the convention signed in 1908.
This article was published in the journal Past (Minalo), issue 2-3, year 2021. Spaska Shumanova is an expert at the State Archives Agency in Sofia. She is the author of the book “Bulgarian-Romanian Political Relations (1944-1989)”, published in Bulgarian in 2020.
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