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The Serbian campaign of 1914 was a significant military operation during World War I. It marked the first major confrontation between the Central Powers , primarily Austro-Hungary , and the Allied Powers , led by the Kingdom of Serbia .
The Serbian campaign was a series of military expeditions launched in 1914 and 1915 by the Central Powers against the Kingdom of Serbia during the First World War. The first campaign began after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914 .
Mass killings took place in numerous towns in northern Serbia. On 17 August 1914, in the Serbian town of Šabac, 120 residents—mostly women, children and old men, who had previously been locked in a church—were shot and buried in the churchyard by Austro-Hungarian troops on the orders of Feldmarschall-Leutnant Kasimir von Lütgendorf. [8]
Alarmed by the prospect of Austria-Hungary's disintegration, Emperor Franz Joseph personally authorized a third invasion of Serbia in early October 1914. [15] Having just repelled the Serbian incursion into Bosnia, the Austro-Hungarian Army regrouped and positioned itself for one final invasion before winter set in. [16] Potiorek was again ...
After being defeated in the Battle of Cer in August 1914, the Austro-Hungarian army retreated over the Drina River back into Bosnia and Syrmia.Under the pressure of the Allies, Serbia conducted an offensive across the Sava river into the Austro-Hungarian region of Syrmia taking Zemun going as far as 20 miles into enemy territory. [1]
[4] [5] Through its connections to the June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, carried out by the members of the youth movement Young Bosnia, the Black Hand was instrumental in starting World War I (1914–1918) by precipitating the July Crisis of 1914, which eventually led to Austria-Hungary's invasion of the Kingdom ...
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2011-04-10T20:05:09Z Alphathon 680x520 (568373 Bytes) Improved Serbia, Montenegro and surrounding countries using data from "File:Serbia Map.png". Fixed Serbia-Montenegro border. Added Kosovo (using dashed border, since it is not a universally recognised nation, and left the lan; 2011-04-10T15:55:02Z Alphathon 680x520 (524980 Bytes) Tweaked ...