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Serbia's casualties accounted for 8% of the total Allied military deaths. 58% of the regular Serbian Army (420,000 strong) perished during the conflict. [39] According to the Serb sources, the total number of casualties is placed around 1,000,000: [40] 25% of Serbia's prewar size, and an absolute majority (57%) of its overall male population. [41]
General Oskar Potiorek, the Balkanstreitkräfte commander leading the invasion of Serbia, began with a force of 460,000 soldiers spread across 19 divisions. In opposition, Field Marshal Radomir Putnik commanded 400,000 Serbian troops, among whom were 185,000 seasoned veterans who had participated in the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913.
This is a list of the presidents of Serbia, including the heads of state of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent state within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and heads of state of the Republic of Serbia (1992–2006), a constituent state within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey – Commander of Army Group North 1916–1918, The Allied Army of the Orient and in the Liberation of Serbia (1918) Joseph Gallieni – Military Governor of Paris and Minister of War (1915–1916) Michel-Joseph Maunoury – Commander of the 6th Army (1914–1915) during the First Battle of the Marne
August von Mackensen − Commanded the 9th Army (1914) before leading several Army Groups: Army Group Mackensen in Poland and the 11th Army (1915), Serbia (1915–1916) and Romania (1916–1918) Max von Gallwitz - Commanded the 12th and later 11th Army in the East, followed by the 2nd Army and Army Group Gallwitz-Somme in the West.
The Central Powers enjoyed massive superiority in numbers and equipment, especially in artillery, along the nearly 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) front. Serbia and Montenegro could hardly muster half the number of soldiers as the Central Powers. [36] Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen visiting an Austro-Hungarian unit during the Serbian campaign.
The conference called for an immediate attack on Serbia. [17] Both the Allies and the Central Powers attempted to persuade Bulgaria to align with their respective sides. Bulgaria and Serbia had a history of conflict, having engaged in two wars in the previous three decades: the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885 and the Second Balkan War in 1913. By ...
This article lists the heads of state of Serbia, from the establishment of the modern Serbian state during the Serbian Revolution to the present day.. The list includes the heads of state of Revolutionary Serbia and the independent monarchies; Principality of Serbia and Kingdom of Serbia, as well as Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of ...