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Bulgarian army occupation units in Yugoslavia 1943
5th Army
24 April 1941 - 9 September 19445th Army (Skopje, Macedonia) South-East Serbia 50th Infantry Regiment (from 1st Infantry Division) - Pirot 52nd Infantry Regiment (from 14th Infantry Division) - Vranje 6th Infantry Division - partially in ZajeÄar 29th Infantry Division (reinforcement in the beginning of 1944) - Vranje Macedonia 14th Infantry Division - Skopje 15th Infantry Division - Bitola 1st Cavalry Regiment (from 1st Cavalry Brigade) - Å tip 2nd Cavalry Regiment (from 1st Cavalry Brigade) - Skopje 17th Infantry Division (reinforcement in August 1943) - Å tip
1st Occupation Corps
June/July 1942 - Summer 1943
General Asen Nikolov1st Occupation Corps - in early 1943 it expands to line Drina - Kraljevo - Arandjelovac - Topola so 7th SS 'Prinz Eugen' and 717th Infantry Division could leave for Bosnia, in Summer of '43 occupation zone expands again to Danube river. 9th Infantry Division 'Pleven' (replacing the 6th) 7th Infantry Division 'Rila' (replacing the 17th) 21st Infantry Division
1st Occupation Corps
Summer 1943 - 29 August 1944
General Asen Nikolov1st Occupation Corps
(reorganized and strengthened)Combat strength on 21 August was 33,635 soldiers
9th Infantry Division 'Pleven' 7th Infantry Division 'Rila' 21st Infantry Division 22nd Infantry Division 24th Infantry Division 25th Infantry Division 27th Infantry Division 6th Infantry Division (reinforcement in August 1944) Sources:
- Vladimir Trendafilovski
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