Battle of Lule Burgas

Battle of Lule Burgas
	Part of the First Balkan War
Date	28 October – 2 November 1912
Location	Burgos, Kirk Kilise District, Adrianople Vilayet, Ottoman Empire; (present-day Lüleburgaz-Bunarhisar, Turkey)41°24′20″N 27°21′25″E / 41.40556°N 27.35694°E
Result	Bulgarian victory
Belligerents
Bulgaria	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Radko Dimitriev ; Gen. Ivan Fichev; Gen. Vasil Kutinchev; Gen. Kliment Boyadzhiev; Gen. Pavel Hristov; Gen. Pravoslav Tenev; Gen. Stoyu Bradistilov	Abdullah Pasha; Mahmud Muhtar Pasha
Strength
108,000 ; 116 machine guns; 360 guns	130,000 ; 300 guns
Casualties and losses
20,000 killed and wounded	22,000 killed and wounded; 2,800 captured; 50 guns captured

The Battle of Lule Burgas (Turkish: Lüleburgaz Muharebesi) or Battle of Luleburgas – Bunarhisar (Bulgarian: Битка при Люлебургас – Бунархисар, Turkish: Lüleburgaz – Pınarhisar Muharebesi) took place between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire and was the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War. The battle took place from 28 October to 2 November 1912. The outnumbered Bulgarian forces made the Ottomans retreat to Çatalca line, 30 km from the Ottoman capital Constantinople. In terms of forces engaged it was the largest battle fought in Europe between the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the beginning of the First World War.^[8]

^ Mitrany, David, The Balkans – A History of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, (Aristophanes Press, 2008), 75.
^ Фичев, И. Българското командъване през Балканската война 1912–1913, с.136
^ ЦВА, ф.40, оп. 2, а.е. 126, л. 34
^ Войната между България и Турция 1912–1913. 1, с.236
^ Necdet Hayta, Togay S. Birbudak, Balkan Savaşları’nda Edirne, Genelkurmay Basımevi, Ankara, 2010, page 23.
^ Димитриев, P., цит. съч., с. 293, 296—298; Държавен вестник, № 242. 25. Х. 1912.
^ ЦВА, ф.40, оп. 2, а.е. 126, 135
^ Erickson (2003), p.102.

[1] Mitrany, David, The Balkans – A History of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, (Aristophanes Press, 2008), 75.

[2] Фичев, И. Българското командъване през Балканската война 1912–1913, с.136

[3] ЦВА, ф.40, оп. 2, а.е. 126, л. 34

[4] Войната между България и Турция 1912–1913. 1, с.236

[5] Necdet Hayta, Togay S. Birbudak, Balkan Savaşları’nda Edirne, Genelkurmay Basımevi, Ankara, 2010, page 23.

[6] Димитриев, P., цит. съч., с. 293, 296—298; Държавен вестник, № 242. 25. Х. 1912.

[7] ЦВА, ф.40, оп. 2, а.е. 126, 135

[Erickson102-8] Erickson (2003), p.102.

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