First Balkan War | |||||||
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Part of the Balkan Wars | |||||||
Clockwise from top right: Serbian forces entering the town of Mitrovica; Ottoman troops at the Battle of Kumanovo; the Greek king and the Bulgarian tsar in Thessaloniki; Bulgarian heavy artillery |
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ottoman Empire |
Balkan League: Bulgaria (from 1913) Serbia (from 1913) Greece Montenegro |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mehmed V Enver Pasha Nazım Pasha, Zeki Pasha, Esad Pasha Kölemen Abdullah Pasha, Ali Rıza Pasha, Hasan Tahsin Pasha İsmail Hakkı Okday |
Ferdinand I Mihail Savov Ivan Fichev, Vasil Kutinchev, Nikola Ivanov, Radko Dimitriev, Stiliyan Kovachev Georgi Todorov Peter I Radomir Putnik, Petar Bojović, Stepa Stepanović, Božidar Janković George I Crown Prince Constantine, Panagiotis Danglis, Pavlos Kountouriotis King Nicholas I Prince Danilo Petrović Prince Peter Janko Vukotić |
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Strength | |||||||
336,742 men initially, significantly more than the Balkan League by the end | Bulgaria 350,000+, Serbia 230,000 men, Greece 125,000 men, Montenegro 44,500 men Total: 749,500+ |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
Ottoman Empire: |
Bulgaria: |
Ottoman Empire:
50,000 killed
100,000 wounded
115,000 captured
75,000 dead of disease
Bulgaria:
8,840 killed
4,926 missing
36,877 wounded
10,995 deceased
Greece:
2,373 killed in action or died of wounds
9,295 wounded
1,558 dead of disease or accidents (incl. 2nd Balkan war)
Serbia:
5,000 killed
18,000 wounded
6,698 dead of disease
Montenegro:
2,430 killed
6,602 wounded
406 dead of disease