From left to right: Allied soldiers from Indochina, France, Senegal, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Serbia, Greece, and India.
Date
21 October 1915 – 30 September 1918 (2 years, 11 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location
Macedonia
Result
Allied victory
Armistice of Salonica
End of the Balkans theatre
Belligerents
Central Powers:
Bulgaria
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire (1916–1917)
Allied Powers:
France
Serbia
United Kingdom
Greece(from 1917)
Italy
Russia(1916–1917)
Honorary Russian Legion (from 1917)[1]
Commanders and leaders
Nikola Zhekov
Georgi Todorov
Kliment Boyadzhiev
Dimitar Geshov
Stefan Nerezov
August von Mackensen
Otto von Below
Friedrich von Scholtz
Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin
Abdul Kerim Pasha
Maurice Sarrail
Adolphe Guillaumat
Louis F. d'Esperey
Petar Bojović
Živojin Mišić
Bryan Mahon
George Milne
Panagiotis Danglis
Units involved
Army Group Scholtz
11th German Army[a]
1st Bulgarian Army
2nd Bulgarian Army
4th Bulgarian Army
Ottoman XX Corps
Army Group Albania
Allied Army of the Orient
Armée d'Orient
1st Serbian Army[b]
2nd Serbian Army[b]
3rd Serbian Army[b]
British Salonika Army
National Defence Army
35th Italian division
Russian Expeditionary Force
Italian XVI Corps
Strength
550,000 men[4]
18,000 men[4]
1,217 artillery pieces
2,710 machine guns
30 aeroplanes
Unknown
29,000 men (Dec 1916 – May 1917), afterwards 4,300 (until May 1918).[5]
717,000 men[4]
2,609 artillery pieces
2,682 machine guns
6,434 automatic rifles
200 aeroplanes
Casualties and losses
200,000 casualties[c]
6,700 killed, 15,600 missing and 16,200 wounded[7][8]
40,000 casualties[d]
27,000 casualties[e]
26,207 casualties[f]
10,538 casualties[12][g]
Unknown
v
t
e
Balkans theatre
Serbia
Serbian campaign (1914)
Cer
Srem
Drina
Kolubara
Serbian campaign (1915)
Morava
Ovče Pole
Kosovo
Great Retreat
Montenegro
Mojkovac
Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian occupation
Toplica Uprising
Macedonian front
Krivolak
Kosturino
1st Doiran
Florina
Struma
Monastir
Malka Nidzhe
Kaymakchalan
1st Crna Bend
2nd Monastir
2nd Doiran
2nd Crna Bend
Skra-di-Legen
Vardar
Dobro Pole
3rd Doiran
Liberation of Serbia
Vladai Uprising [bg]
Greece
National Schism
Katerini
Noemvriana
Thessaly
Albania
v
t
e
Macedonian front
Krivolak
Kosturino
1st Doiran
Florina
Struma
Monastir
Malka Nidzhe
Kaymakchalan
1st Crna Bend
2nd Monastir
2nd Doiran
2nd Crna Bend
Skra-di-Legen
Vardar
Dobro Pole
3rd Doiran
Liberation of Serbia
Vladai Uprising [bg]
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. The expedition came too late and with insufficient force to prevent the fall of Serbia and was complicated by the internal political crisis in Greece (the National Schism). Eventually, a stable front was established, running from the Albanian Adriatic coast to the Struma River, pitting a multinational Allied force against the Bulgarian army, which was at various times bolstered with smaller units from the other Central Powers. The Macedonian front remained stable, despite local actions, until the Allied offensive in September 1918 resulted in Bulgaria capitulating and the liberation of Serbia.
^Олейников А. Россия-щит Антанты. С предисловием Николая Старикова.-СПб.:Питер, 2016.-336 с.-( серия «Николай Стариков рекомендует прочитать») ISBN 978-5-496-01795-4
^Korsun 1939, p. 95.
^Thomas & Babac 2001, pp. 12–13.
^ abcRichard C. Hall, Balkan Breakthrough: The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918, 2010 – p. 134
^"Campaigns – Macedonia". Turkeyswar.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
^ ab"Military Casualties-World War-Estimated" Statistics Branch, GS, War Department, 25 February 1924; cited in World War I: People, Politics, and Power, published by Britannica Educational Publishing (2010) p. 219.
^Until the Armistice of 11 November 1918. Max Schiavon. Le Front d'Orient. Des Dardanelles à la victoire finale. Tallandier. 2014. p. 114, 368.
^"Reporters: How the Salonica Front led to victory in WWI". www.france24.com. 9 November 2018.
^Urlanis, Boris (1971). Wars and Population. Moscow: Progress Publishers. pp. 66, 79, 83, 85, 160, 171, 268.
^Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War 1914–1920. The War Office. p. 353.
^T. J. Mitchell and G.M. Smith. "Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War." From the "Official History of the Great War." pp. 190–191.
^Ministero della Difesa: L’Esercito italiano nella Grande Guerra (1915–1918), vol. VII: Le operazioni fuori del territorio nazionale: Albania, Macedonia, Medio Oriente, t. 3° bis: documenti, Rome 1981, Parte Prima, doc. 77, p. 173 and Parte Seconda, doc. 78, p. 351; Mortara, La salute pubblica in Italia 1925, p. 37.
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