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The Battle of Krivolak (in Bulgarian: Криволашко сражение, Битка при Криволак) was a World War I battle, fought between 21 October and 22 November 1915. It was fought in the initial stage of the Macedonian campaign , in the Balkans Theatre .
This advance provided some limited assistance to the retreating Serbian army, as the Bulgarians had to concentrate larger forces on their southern flank to deal with the threat, which led to the Battle of Krivolak. The French and British soldiers, moving up in two columns on both sides of the Vardar River into Serbian Macedonia, comprised a ...
Krivolak (Macedonian: Криволак) is a village in the municipality of Negotino, North Macedonia. It is located in the Povardarie wine-growing region, along the river Vardar . Krivolak is the place where the Battle of Krivolak between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the French Third Republic took place during World War I .
With this success, the aim was achieved. While fighting against the Serbs, the Bulgarians defeated two French divisions in the Battle of Krivolak and conclusively cut the way between the Serbs and the Allies, resulting in the fall of Serbia after the Kosovo Offensive Operation in 1915.
Hristo Chernopeev (Bulgarian: Христо Чернопеев) (c. 1868, Dermantsi – 6 November 1915, Krivolak) was a Bulgarian Army officer and member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia. He was among the leaders of the Bulgarian People's Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.
Title page of the Ostrog Bible, 19th-century facsimile edition. The Ostrog Bible (Ukrainian: Острозька Біблія, romanized: Ostroz’ka Bibliia; Russian: Острожская Библия, romanized: Ostrozhskaya Bibliya) was the first complete printed edition of the Bible in Church Slavonic, [1] published in Ostrog (now Ostroh, Ukraine) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by ...
The two French divisions were then ordered to remain in position while the Serbian Timok and Yugoslav Divisions moved forward. By the end of the day, Bulgaria lost approximately 40–50 percent of the 12,000 soldiers involved in the battle, including 3,000 prisoners of war, 2,689 dead and 50 out of the initial 158 artillery pieces. Entente ...
List of air operations during the Battle of Europe. List of Allied attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz; List of strategic bombing over Germany in World War II; List of strategic bombing over the United Kingdom in World War II; List of amphibious assault operations; List of military operations on ice; List of naval battles