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Battle of Lozengrad
Part of First Balkan War
Date 24 October 1912
Location Lozengrad, Turkey
Result Decisive Bulgarian victory
Combatants
Flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria Ottoman flag Ottoman Empire
Commanders
Flag of Bulgaria General Radko Dimitriev
Flag of Bulgaria General Ivan Fichev		 Ottoman flag Mahmud Muhtar Pasha
Ottoman flag Abdullah Pasha
Strength
Unknown 90,000 [1]
Casualties
880 killed, 3000 wounded Heavy, 58 cannons captured, 2 airplanes captured
v • d • e
First Balkan War
Sarantaporo - Giannitsa - Kumanovo - Kirk Kilisse - Pente Pigadia - Prilep - Lule-Burgas - Vevi - Bitola - Elli - Bulair - Adrianople - Lemnos - Bizani

The Battle of Lozengrad was part of the First Balkan War between the armies of Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. It took place on 24 October 1912, when the Bulgarian army defeated an Ottoman army in Eastern Thrace.

The initial clashes were around several villages to the north of the town. The Bulgarian attacks were irresistible and the Turks were forced to retreat. On 10 October an enemy army threatened to split 1st and 3th Bulgarian armies but it was quickly stopped by charge by 1st Sofian and 2nd Preslav brigades. After bloody fights along the whole town the enemy began to pull back and on the next morning the Bulgarians liberated Lozengrad.

After the victory, the French minister of war Etiene Mileran stated that the Bulgarian Army was the best in Europe and that he would prefer 100,000 Bulgarians for allies than any other European army. [2]

  1. ^ http://www.sl-news.sliven.net/obshtestvo/obshtestvo_11.htm
  2. ^ В. Мир, № 3684, 15. X. 1912.


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