Orsova Offensive

Orsova Offensive
Part of the Romanian Campaign of World War I
Emperor Franz Joseph at the Orsova railway station (1896)
Date 28 August–4 September 1916 Location Orsova, Banat, Austria-Hungary (today in Romania) Result Romanian victory
Belligerents
Romania	Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Ioan Culcer Ion Dragalina	Arthur Arz von Straussenburg Rudolf von Fiebich-Ripke
Units involved
1st Army 1st Infantry Division	1st Army 145th Infantry Brigade SMS Álmos
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown 25 tons of coal

The Orsova Offensive was a military engagement fought between the armies of Romania and Austria-Hungary at the start of the Romanian Campaign in August–September 1916. It ended in a Romanian victory which led to the Romanian occupation of the west bank of the Cserna (Cerna) River for over two months.