Second Balkan War

Second Balkan War
Part of the Balkan Wars
Map of the mainland operations of the Allied belligerents (amphibious actions not shown)
Date 29 June – 10 August 1913 (1 month, 1 week and 5 days) Location Balkan Peninsula Result Bulgarian defeat Treaty of Bucharest Treaty of Constantinople Territorial changes Bulgaria cedes: East Thrace to the Ottoman Empire Southern Dobruja to Romania Most of Vardar Macedonia to Serbia Parts of Western Thrace to Greece
Belligerents
Bulgaria	Serbia  Romania  Greece  Montenegro  Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand I Mihail Savov Vasil Kutinchev Nikola Ivanov Radko Dimitriev Stiliyan Kovachev Stefan Toshev Nikola Zhekov Garegin Nzhdeh	Peter I Radomir Putnik Stepa Stepanović Petar Bojović Carol I Prince Ferdinand Ioan Culcer Constantine I Viktor Dousmanis Pavlos Kountouriotis Nicholas I Prince Danilo Janko Vukotić Mehmed V Enver Pasha Ahmed Izzet Pasha Çürüksulu Mahmud Pasha
Strength
600,000+[1]	348,000[2] 330,000[2] 148,000 12,800[2] 255,000[3] Total:1,093,802
Casualties and losses
Kingdom of Bulgaria:[1][better source needed] 7,583 killed 9,694 missing 42,911 wounded 3,049 deceased 140 artillery pieces captured or destroyed Total: 65,927 killed or wounded	Serbia: 50,000 9,000 killed 36,000 wounded 5,000 dead of disease[4]  Romania: 1,600[5][6][7] negligible combat casualties 1,600 dead of a cholera outbreak  Greece: 29,886 5,851 killed in action 23,847 wounded in action 188 missing in action[8]  Montenegro: 1,201 240 killed 961 wounded[4]  Ottoman Empire: 4,000+ negligible combat casualties 4,000 dead of disease[9] Total: c. 76,000 combat casualties c. 91,000 total losses

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 allies, Serbia and Greece, on 16 (O.S.) / 29 (N.S.) June 1913. Serbian and Greek armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive and counterattacked, entering Bulgaria. With Bulgaria also having previously engaged in territorial disputes with Romania^[10] and the bulk of Bulgarian forces engaged in the south, the prospect of an easy victory incited Romanian intervention against Bulgaria. The Ottoman Empire also took advantage of the situation to regain some lost territories from the previous war. When Romanian troops approached the capital Sofia, Bulgaria asked for an armistice, resulting in the Treaty of Bucharest, in which Bulgaria had to cede portions of its First Balkan War gains to Serbia, Greece and Romania. In the Treaty of Constantinople, it lost Adrianople to the Ottomans.

The political developments and military preparations for the Second Balkan War attracted an estimated 200 to 300 war correspondents from around the world.^[11]