Battle of Kumanovo

Battle of Kumanovo
Part of the First Balkan War
First Balkan War. The Serbian Front (Serbia) The march of the armies before the battle of Kumanovo.
Date 23–24 October 1912 Location Kumanovo district, Sanjak of Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Kumanovo, North Macedonia) Result Serbian victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Serbia	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Radomir Putnik Prince Alexander Stepa Stepanović Božidar Janković Ahmed Ademović	Halepli Zeki Pasha (Vardar Army) Fethi Pasha (VII Corps)
Units involved
First Army Second Army Third Army	V Corps VI Corps VII Corps
Strength
132,000 men 148 artillery pieces 100 machine guns [1]	65,000 men 164 artillery pieces 104 machine guns [1]
Casualties and losses
687 killed 3,280 wounded 597 missing [2] Total: 4,564[a]	1,200 killed 3,000 wounded 327 captured 98 artillery pieces lost [2][b] Total: 4,500[c]
3,000 people were massacred by the Serbian army between Kumanovo and Uskub[4][5]

The Battle of Kumanovo (Serbian: Кумановска битка / Kumanovska bitka, Turkish: Kumanova Muharebesi), on 23–24 October 1912, was a major battle of the First Balkan War. It was an important Serbian victory over the Ottoman army in the Kosovo Vilayet, shortly after the outbreak of the war. After this defeat, the Ottoman army abandoned the major part of the region, suffering heavy losses in manpower (mostly due to desertions) and in war materiel.^[6]

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