Western outskirts (Western Bulgarian Outlands) is political-geographic and historical term, validated after the end of World War 1,within which are indicated the territories cut off from the Bulgarian country from force of Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine, incorporated to the kingdom of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian (Yugoslavian Kingdom). The bigger part of this territories (1545 sq.m.) is nowadays part of Serbia, the smaller one (1028 sq.m. Strumica)- at republic Macedonia.

Presumably for this reason, in official contacts of Sofia and Belgrade the term has not been used since 1948. It was mentioned once, in the 1948 Bled Agreement by Josip Broz Tito and Georgi Dimitrov. That was in the period of Joseph Stalin’s push[citation needed] for a Communist super-state in the Balkans, the Balkan Federative Republic, composed of Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria. After the Informbiro Resolution in 1948 when Tito and Stalin split, the idea was off too. Despite not being used internationally (until 1990s when it was revived), it is very widely used in internal social and political communication in Bulgaria.

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