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The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.
Wreckage of LZ 55 on the marshes near mouth of the Varder River during the Salonika Campaign. Zeppelin LZ 55 (Army tactical number LZ 85) was a P-class Zeppelin of the Imperial German Army in World War I. It was shot down by the old British pre-dreadnough battleship HMS Agamemnon in 1916 during Salonika campaign
The Normans occupied Thessalonica until mid-November, when, following their defeat at the Battle of Demetritzes, they evacuated it.After emperor Andronikos Komnenos's massacre of the Latins in Constantinople in 1182, the massacre of the Thessalonians deepened the rift between the Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity.
The French and British divisions marched north from Thessaloniki in October 1915 under the joint command of French General Maurice Sarrail and British General Bryan Mahon. On 20 October, the French divisions reached Krivolak on the Vardar river, while the British occupied the strategically important area between the Kosturino Pass, Vardar and ...
Allied collaboration: an Italian captain, a Russian lieutenant, a Serb colonel, a French lieutenant, and a Greek gendarme. The Allied Army of the Orient (AAO) (French: Armées alliées en Orient) was the name of the unified command over the multi-national allied armed forces on the Salonika front during the First World War.
"Salonika," English Historical Review (1917) 32#126 pp. 161–174 in JSTOR; Molho, Anthony. "The Jewish Community of Salonika: The End of a Long History." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1.1 (1991): 100–122. online; Palmer, Alan. The Gardeners of Salonika: The Macedonian Campaign 1915-1918 (Faber & Faber, 2011) Tsvetkovitch ...
The army arrived in Salonika (along with French troops) on 15 October 1915. [3] In May 1916 Lieutenant-General George Milne replaced Mahon as commander of the Army. It eventually comprised two corps and as the Army of the Black Sea remained in place until 1921. [4] The dead of the British Salonika Army are commemorated by the Doiran Memorial.
The campaign began in the night of 28–29 July with Austria-Hungary bombarding Belgrade. On 12 August, the Austro-Hungarian forces, under General Oskar Potiorek , initiated their first offensive into Serbia when the Balkanstreitkräfte , consisting of the 5th Army and 6th Army , attacked Serbia from the west and north.