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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 ...
Balkans and Peloponnese Peninsula Yugoslav Wars: 0.13–0.14 million [233] [234] 1991–2001 Separatist forces and NATO vs. Yugoslavia, later Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Balkans Irish Nine Years' War: 0.13 million [235] 1593–1603 Kingdom of England vs. Irish rebels Ireland Chaco War: 0.08–0.13 million [236] [237] [238] 1932–1935 ...
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 ...
Map showing the borders of the Balkan states before and after both Balkan Wars.. The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, [1] which still controlled much of Southeastern Europe.
Hellenic Army General Staff, Army History Directorate (1998), A Concise History of the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, Athens, ISBN 960-7897-07-2 {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher Erickson, Edward J.; Bush, Brighton C. (2003), Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913 , Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-275-97888-5
The Lumë forces numbered approximately 4,000 people, while the Dibra forces totaled about 600. [4] The Lumë Albanians captured the Tower of Lumë, earning the victory of this battle. Albanian forces in the evening 17 November, attacked the carriages of the Serbian convoy attempting to withdraw in the direction of Prizren.
The non-recoverable casualties during the First Balkan War were 33,000 men (14,000 killed and 19,000 died of disease). To replace these casualties, Bulgaria conscripted 60,000 men between the two wars, mainly from the newly occupied areas, using 21,000 of them to form the Seres , Drama and Odrin (Edirne) independent brigades.
List of places burned during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) Name Date Pre-war population Deaths Notes Kilkis: July 4, 1913: 13,000: 74: Totally ruined. Serres: July 11, 1913: 30,000: 200: 4,000 of the 6,000 houses destroyed. Doxato: July 13, 1913: 500: Only 30 of the 270 Greek houses were left intact. Giannitsa: 1912: Turkish part of the town was ...