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In March 1913, during the First Balkan War, the Greek Army entered Ioannina after breaching the Ottoman fortifications at Bizani, and soon afterwards advanced further north. [5] Himarë had already been under Greek control since 5 November 1912, after a local Himariote , Gendarmerie Major Spyros Spyromilios , led a successful uprising that met ...
U.S. State Department. "The Formation of the Balkan Alliance of 1912" (1918) Archived 1 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine; C. Hall, Richard: Balkan Wars 1912–1913, in: 1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Project Gutenberg's The Balkan Wars: 1912–1913, by Jacob Gould Schurman; US Library of Congress in the ...
The Commission went to the participating countries at the beginning of August 1913 and remained until the end of September. After returning to Paris all the material was processed and released in the form of a detailed report. The report speaks of the numerous violations of international conventions and war crimes committed during the Balkan Wars.
The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame the initially numerically inferior (significantly superior by the end of the conflict) and strategically ...
The Battle of Kumanovo (Serbian: Кумановска битка / Kumanovska bitka, Turkish: Kumanova Muharebesi), on 23–24 October 1912, was a major battle of the First Balkan War. It was an important Serbian victory over the Ottoman army in the Kosovo Vilayet , shortly after the outbreak of the war.
The First Balkan War (1912–1913), which pitted the Balkan League (Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Serbia) against the Ottoman Empire, resulted in the defeat of the latter and its withdrawal from most of the Balkans.
The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War. Routledge. ISBN 9780415229470. "Le voyage de diadoque en Epire". Gazette de Lausanne. No. 140. 1913-05-24. p. 3 – via Le Temps Archives. Petsalēs-Diomēdēs, N. (1919). Greece at the Paris Peace Conference. Institute for Balkan Studies.
The battle took place from 28 October to 2 November 1912. The outnumbered Bulgarian forces made the Ottomans retreat to Çatalca line, 30 km from the Ottoman capital Constantinople. In terms of forces engaged it was the largest battle fought in Europe between the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the beginning of the First World War. [8]