The Balkan Front was a military formation of the Bulgarian People's Army, intended for wartime use under the general direction of the Soviet General Staff...
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The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro)...
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The Balkans theatre or Balkan campaign was a theatre of World War I fought between the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and the Ottoman...
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Europa (wargame) (redirect from Balkan Front (game))
Europa III - The Balkans Campaign, 1941. Marita-Merkur, (MM) GDW 1979. Balkan Front, (BF) GRD 1990. Europa IV - The Norwegian campaign, 1940. Narvik, (Nar)...
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The Balkans (/ˈbɔːlkənz/ BAWL-kənz, /ˈbɒlkənz/ BOL-kənz), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula (Peninsula of Haemus, Haemaic Peninsula),...
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The Balkan Wars were a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan states of...
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European theatre of World War I (section Balkans Front)
main theatres of operations: the Western Front, the Eastern Front, the Italian Front, and the Balkans Front. Not all of Europe was involved in the war...
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Balkanstreitkräfte (redirect from Balkan streitkräfte)
5th Army reorganised by Archduke Eugen and relocated to the Italian front. Balkan Army was formed on 25 July 1914 after the chief of the general staff...
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Serbian front saw a lull until the early autumn of 1915. Under the command of Field Marshal August von Mackensen, the Austro-Hungarian Balkan Army, the...
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October 1827.[page needed] After suffering several defeats, both in the Balkans and in the Caucasus, the Sultan decided to sue for peace, which resulted...
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The Bulgarian Front of First Balkan War was one of the heaviest fronts of the First Balkan War fought between 21 October 1912 and 3 April 1913 Tensions...
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The Balkan Pact, or Balkan Entente, was a treaty signed by Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia on 9 February 1934 in Athens, aimed at maintaining the...
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31/12/17-01/04/19 - commander of the French army in the East (on the Balkan front) 01/04/19-30/09/20 - chief of the French Military Mission to Poland 28/06/22-13/03/24...
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he lost valuable troops, the commander of the Russian troops on the Balkan front, Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia insisted by telegram on the help of his...
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The Second Balkan War was a conflict that broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former...
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The Balkan sprachbund or Balkan language area is an ensemble of areal features—similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology—among the languages...
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5th Army (Austria-Hungary) (section Italian Front)
was a formation of Minimalgruppe Balkan and was assigned to the Balkan Front as part of Balkanstreitkräfte (Balkan Armed Forces) under the command of...
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Second Battle of Kosovo (the first one took place in 1389). When the Balkan front was secured, Murad II turned east to defeat Timur's son, Shah Rokh, and...
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The Balkans and parts of this area may also be placed in Southeastern, Southern, Eastern Europe and Central Europe. The distinct identity and fragmentation...
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Austria-Hungary commenced the First World War by attacking Serbia at the Balkan front. After just a few weeks Austria-Hungarian troops clashed with the numerically...
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Battle of the Drina (category Battles of the Balkans Theatre (World War I))
Battle of the Drina is considered one of the bloodiest on the war's Balkan Front. After being defeated in the Battle of Cer in August 1914, the Austro-Hungarian...
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Balkan (Bulgarian: Балкан) was a brand of motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles manufactured in Lovech, Bulgaria in 1957–1975. Following the end of the Second...
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Bulgarian People's Army's Land Forces Command would have formed the 1st Balkan Front with multiple Bulgarian armies and wartime reinforcements. Two Bulgarian...
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man in the Royal Serbian Army at the age of 22. During her time on the Balkan Front, she would go on to work as a military engineer, a guard for the Scottish...
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The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of...
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Serbian campaign (1914) (category Wars involving the Balkans)
Amber Books. ISBN 978-1-906626-14-3. Lyon, J. (2015). Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4725-8005-4...
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commando companies. It appears by the late 1980s that a Bulgarian-helmed Balkan Front was active in embryo, which would unfold and direct the three armies...
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Congress of Berlin (category History of the Balkans)
July 1878) was a diplomatic conference to reorganise the states in the Balkan Peninsula after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, which had been won by...
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Serbian campaign (category Wars involving the Balkans)
establishment of the Macedonian front. The defeat of Serbia gave the Central Powers temporary mastery over the Balkans, opening up a land route from Berlin...
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Operation Achse (section Balkans)
base and a defensive stronghold against possible Allied attacks on the Balkan front. Therefore, German forces launched a series of operations aimed at capturing...
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