During the First Balkan War, the area of ​​Drama was occupied in October 1912 by the Bulgarians, to be liberated by the Greek army during the Second Balkan War on July 1, 1913. However, during their withdrawal, the Bulgarians caused devastating destruction and the events of Doxatos on June 30, 1913 shocked the world. Men, women and children are slaughtered and the town goes up in flames. The tragic account of the disaster is six hundred and fifty (650) dead and 240 houses and 80 shops burned.

During World War I and during the period 1916-18, the Bulgarians, as allies of the Germans, occupied Eastern Macedonia for the second time. Those men who were saved from the massacre of 1913 are taken in the summer of 1917 as hostages to Bulgaria. According to the Report of the Inter-Allied Commission, seventy-four (74) of them die there with horrible torture, while around 200 women and children perish from hunger and disease in Doxato.

Finally, during the last Bulgarian occupation, on Sunday September 28, 1941, a group of rebels entered Doxato, attacked the police station, set fire to the building and killed four (4) Bulgarian policemen. As a result of this, the following day, Doxato once again paid a heavy blood tax to the Bulgarian army of occupation. In an act of blind violence over 350 young men aged 16 to 50 were executed in retaliation.

For the one thousand one hundred and twenty-four (1,124) reported victims during the three Bulgarian occupations, Doxato was honored: in 1945 with a Royal Decree, in 1985 with the Gold Medal of the Academy of Athens and in 1998 with a Presidential Decree, under which it was characterized as a “Martyrdom City”.