Likely Peace demands in late CP victory

No, the rebellion was more in the western parts of Serbia, near the demarcation line with the Austrian occupation force and was defeated mostly by Bulgarian troops.
While Bulgaria wanted Macedonia and the Nish area, they also annexed a much bigger territory, up to the Morava river and large parts of Kosovo. (See here. Whether they would be able to keep all of it in a CP victory is another matter. Even in OTL, the Central Powers did not give Bulgaria the entire Dobruja region, despite promises to the contrary.


Picky, picky. Nis is the third largest city in Yugoslavia, and about
10 miles from the river that was where the action was. Maybe 15 miles
from where the action started, in Prokuplje, a town of 27,000 people
now.

http://mappery.com/maps/Serbia-and-surrounding-area-Map.png

"On 25 February the Bulgarian governor in Nis informed his
counterpart in Belgrade that agitation was growing visibly in the
Prokuplje-Kursumliji-Lebane sector and was swaying the
peasant population in a hostile sense against our authorities"

"The population in Nis regarded the events with great sympathy, but
the Bulgarians precluded active support by interning about fifty of the
town's
most prominent citizens and then bringing in powerful reinforcements.
Little was known in Belgrade about developments in the south of the
country, but the situation in the Austro-Hungarian Governorate could
hardly be descibed as peaceful."

"The German counsul in Belgrade described the extent of liberated
territory, 'which the insurrectionists consider is still to be expanded',
as

[stretching] basically to near the Morava in the east (which they have,
however, already crossed both to the north and the south of Nis),
to the Jastrebac mountain range in the north (including the most
northern slopes), to the Ibar (18 km. north of Mitrovica) to Vranje. To
the east of the Morava insurrectionists have appeared in Vlasotince,
east of Leskovac, in Knjazevac on the Timok, in Sokobanja in the
Matejevac, not far from Nis, which is a sign that the population in
the old Serb regions is also uneasy. "

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Some truth in what you say, but doesn't it sound petty and
shrill? My point was notification of the group of the issue, not
exact coordinates of a geometric dead center. The dimentions
of the German Consul seems about 50 miles, mostly in the
mountains, and the large population base is by the two
rivers, which is overwhelmingly dominated by Nis and the immediate
environs of dense occupation, a source of manpower. And Nis was
mentioned in our thread, not Prokuplje. What is this? AH is
not an academically reviewed publication or a thesis. So many times
I note a screaming, obvious point that after months of publication
no one ever noticed. If you throw wet sandbags on people who take
the time to post reasonably thought out material, the result will
be a collection of cliche buzzword and time lines. End of rant.
 
Nis is the third largest city in "Yugoslavia"

Strike that, third largest in Serbia. And I did appreciate your
contributing information on the whole.

The short river bottomlands 10 to 15 miles from Nis that started it all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toplica_River
Toplica rebellion
The region was the site of a rebellion of the local Serbian population against Bulgarian occupational forces in 1917 (as this part of Serbia was occupied by Bulgaria in World War I). The Toplica rebellion (Serbian: Toplički ustanak/Топлички устанак) broke out because of the many atrocities of the Bulgarian army (mass slaughters, pillage and burning of the houses and forceful drafting of the Serbian population into the Bulgarian army). Initially, under the leadership of Kosta Vojinoviċ (1890-1917), rebels had some success, liberating many places in the area (at that time, Niški okrug). All three occupying forces in Serbia, Austro-Hungary, Germany and Bulgaria, joined forces and brought three artillery divisions in the area, crushing the rebellion in blood (several thousand killed, mostly civilians).
 
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