Battle of Malka Nidzhe

Battle of Malka Nidzhe
Part of the Monastir Offensive (World War I)
Disposition of the forces prior the battle
Date 12–14 September 1916 Location Malka Nidzhe, Gornichevo, Macedonia Result Tactical Entente victory
Belligerents
Bulgaria	France  Russian Empire  Serbia
Commanders and leaders
Todor Mitov Stefan Tasev	Victor Cordonnier Pavle Jurišić Šturm
Strength
8027 riflemen 56 artillery pieces	unknown
Casualties and losses
1693 men, 34 artillery pieces destroyed or captured	unknown

 France
 Russian Empire

Victor Cordonnier

The Battle of Malka Nidzhe (Bulgarian: Боят на Малка Нидже) also known as the Battle of Gornichevo was the opening battle of the Monastir Offensive. It lasted for three days and ended in victory for the Entente forces.

In August 1916 the fighting on the Balkans took a new turn with the involvement of Romania in the Great War. Concerned with this turn of events the Bulgarian high command convinced its allied German high command that a demonstration of force was necessary on the Macedonian Front in order to shorten the Central Powers front line and carry out a preemptive strike against the Entente forces in Salonika that were preparing an offensive of their own, hoping to assist Romania. So on 17 August the Bulgarian First Army began the Chegan Offensive and took Lerin but after ten days of fighting failed to achieve its objectives. On 27 August the operation was called off and the army ordered to dig in on the positions between Lake Petursko, Lake Ostrovo an along the ridge of the Malka Nidzhe mountain it had occupied.

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