The communist-era state airline, Balkan Airlines, was replaced by Bulgaria Air, for which a private owner was to be selected from among bidders by the end of 2006.

The Balkan Air Force supporting the partisans in Yugoslavia was based at Bari.

In the First Balkan War ( 1912 ) the Bulgarian Air Force bombed Turkish positions at Adrianople, while the Greek Aviation performed, over the Dardanelles, the first naval air co-operation mission in history.

The air-dropped bomb was extensively used during the First Balkan War ( including in the first ever night bombing on 7 November 1912 ), and subsequently shared with the Imperial German Air Service during World War I.

The Balkan Air Force was a late-World War II Allied air formation under the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces that operated mainly in Yugoslavia, supporting the Partisans against Germany, but also to the Greek and Albanian resistance.

The Balkan Air Force was a subordinate to Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, the overall allied air formation in the Mediterranean.

The Balkan Air Force was a multinational unit, with 15 types of aircraft and men from eight nations: Greece, co-belligerent Italy, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia, the UK, USA and USSR ( a transport squadron ).

The Balkan Air Force was disbanded on 15 July 1945.

William Deakin was attached as advisor to the newly formed command, Balkan Air Force, under ( then ) Air Vice Marshal William Elliot, with headquarters at Bari, Italy.

Fitzroy Maclean the head of the British military mission to the Partisans said that the Balkan Air Force " .... was responsible for the planning and co-ordination of all supply dropping as well as for all bomber and fighter operations in support of the Partisans.

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* The first Bulgarian Air Force is formed, using Blériot, Albatros, Farman, Nieuport, Voisin, Somer, Skiorski, and Bristol aircraft ( 23 in total ) to fight in the First Balkan War.

It was assigned to the Balkan Air Force, carrying out operations over Albania and Yugoslavia until the end of the war.

Balkan Air Force aircraft at Vis Air Base during review by Josip Broz Tito | Marshal Tito

The Story of No. 39 Squadron RAF, and its use of the Martin Marauder as part of the Balkan Air Force in support of the Partisan Army in Yugoslavia.

Hemus Air, named after the ancient name for the Balkan mountains, is owned by Varna-based industrial / financial enterprise TIM.

In 1996 it became a separate legal entity from Balkan and was named Hemus Air.

The company was privatized by Bulgarian corporate investors in 2002 and has since faced stiff competition from foreign carriers, as well as the newly-established successor of Balkan, Bulgaria Air.

In November 2006, Balkan Hemus Group sealed a deal to purchase Bulgaria Air with a 99. 99 % share of the airline for € 6. 6 million.

Thus, after the Tehran Conference the Partisans received official recognition as the legitimate national liberation force by the Allies, who subsequently set-up the RAF Balkan Air Force ( under the influence and suggestion of Brigadier-General Fitzroy MacLean ) with the aim to provide increased supplies and tactical air support for Marshal Tito's Partisan forces.

Aircraft and men of the Balkan Air Force during a review by Marshal Josip Broz Tito.

Bill Elliot, in command of the Balkan Air Force, supported the plan, as did the Navy and General Wilson.

When the Germans tried to repair it, the Balkan Air Force soon dissuaded them.

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The Hellenic Air Force participated in the Balkan Wars, World War I, the Asia Minor War, World War II, the Greek Civil War and the Korean War.

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* No. 40 Squadron SAAF: This fighter reconnaissance unit detached four pilots to Balkan Air Force on 9 December 1944, flying Spitfire V's on loan from No. 318 ( Polish ) Squadron.

Flying Spitfire V's assigned to a grounded Greek-manned squadron, the detachment operated out of Hassani from 13 December 1945 to 5 February 1945 under the direct control of Balkan Air Force.

Balkan Air Force | BAF ( YNLA AF ) Franjo Kluz's mechanics.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

The recovery of Azov and the Morea, and the conquest of part of Persia, managed to counterbalance the Balkan territory ceded to the Habsburg Monarchy through the Treaty of Passarowitz, after the Ottoman Empire was defeated in Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18.

In 1875, the Herzegovinian rebellion was the beginning of further unrest in the Balkan provinces.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

On 17 / 30 May a peace treaty was signed between Turkey and the Balkan Alliance.

Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war ; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after the Second Balkan War and World War I.

It was influenced by its non-Slavic neighbors in the Balkan language area ( mostly grammatically ) and later also by Turkish, which was the official language of the Ottoman Empire, in the form of the Ottoman Turkish language, mostly lexically.

It was only after the Battle of France German thinking reverted to the possibility of a blitzkrieg method for the Balkan Campaign and Operation Barbarossa.

The First Balkan War broke out when the League attacked the Ottoman Empire on 8 October 1912 and was ended seven months later by the Treaty of London.

Greece was the only Balkan country with a navy powerful enough to deny use of the Aegean to the Ottoman Empire, thus a treaty between Greece and Bulgaria became necessary ; it was signed in May 1912.

This alliance between Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro became known as the Balkan League ; its existence was undesirable for all the Great Powers.

Though the Balkan allies had fought together against the common enemy, that was not enough to overcome their mutual rivalries.

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

* Russia was a prime mover in the establishment of the Balkan League and saw it as an essential tool in case of a future war against its rival, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

But in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was toying with the idea of replacing the Balkan area of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

The Second Balkan war was a catastrophic blow to Russian policies in the Balkans, where Russia had focused its interests for access to the " warm seas " for centuries.

While most armies still maintained cavalry units at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, significant mounted action was largely restricted to the Polish, Balkan and Soviet campaigns.

This development outraged Austria-Hungary, who was Russia's chief competitor for influence in the Balkan region ( despite being an ally of the Russians and the Germans in the Three Emperors ' League ).