ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN COUNTRIES THAT ARE BELONGED TO SERBIA AFTER THE BALKAN WARS 1912-1913

Abstract

This paper focuses on the establishment of the first domestic local authorities in former areas of the Ottoman Empire that belonged to Serbia and Bulgaria after the Balkan Wars 1912–1913. This process was carried through more military and legal-political phases. In liberated areas of Old Serbia (Area of Ras-Polimlje, Kosovo) and Vardar Macedonia that belonged to Serbia, that process had three phases: 1) the first phase included the period of the establishment of the first local authorities, based on instructions by inspector of Ministry and Chief of Policy Department of the Supreme Military Command; 2) the second phase included the implementation of the Decree on Organization of Liberated Areas of 14th December 1912; 3) the third phase included the implementation of the next Decree on Organization of Liberated Areas of 21st August 1913. In Bulgaria, the process of the establishment of the first domestic local authorities had some what a different direction. In this process it can certainly bese enclearly influence of the Russian legal-political tradition on the development of the Bulgarian administration. In liberated areas of the former Villayet of Adrianople there was the Thrace military gubernia with the strict military regime. The Bulgarian army also established the Macedonian military gubernia, but only in Pirin Macedonia. There were special administrative units within these large military provinces with very rigid regime. Institutions of the civil local government gradually displaced the military authorities.