Great Retreat (Serbia)

Military retreat of the Serbian army during the Winter of 1915/16

Not to be confused with Albania's Golgotha.

For other uses, see Great Retreat (disambiguation).

Great Retreat (Serbia)

Part of the Second Serbian campaign and the Balkans theatre of World War I

Serbian troops retreating through the mountains

Type| Strategic withdrawal
Location|

Kosovo, Serbia to Adriatic coast through Albania and Montenegro

42°22′56.69″N 19°58′51.29″E﻿ / ﻿42.3824139°N 19.9809139°E﻿ / 42.3824139; 19.9809139
Planned by| Serbian Army High Command
Commanded by| Field Marshal Radomir Putnik
Objective| Reaching the Adriatic coast
Date| 25 November 1915 (1915-11-25) – 18 January 1916 (1916-01-18)
Executed by| Royal Serbian Army
(with civilian refugees and Austrian prisoners)
Outcome| Evacuation to Corfu
Casualties| Serbian soldiers[1]

* 77,455 dead
* 77,278 missing

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Serbian civilians[2]

* 160,000 dead

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Habsburg POWs[3]

* 47,000 dead

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Serbian campaign

Serbian campaign (1914)

* Cer
* Srem
* Drina
* Kolubara

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* Morava
* Ovče Pole
* Kosovo
* Great Retreat
* Montenegro
* Mojkovac

Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian occupation

* Toplica Uprising

The Great Retreat, also known in Serbian historiography as the Albanian Golgotha[4] (Serbian: Албанска голгота, Albanska golgota), refers to the retreat of the Royal Serbian Army through the mountains of Albania during the 1915–16 winter of World War I.

In late October 1915, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria launched a synchronised major offensive, under German leadership, against Serbia. Early that same month, France and Britain landed four divisions at Salonika, respectively under General Sarrail and General Sir Byron Mahon, to assist their outnumbered Serbian ally caught between the invading forces. The Serbs fought while retreating southwards with the plan to withdraw into Macedonia to link up with Allied forces. After the defection of Greece, the Bulgarian forces stopped the Franco-British relief force in the Vardar Valley, the Serbs found themselves swept together in the plain of Kosovo by the converging Austro-Hungarian, German, and Bulgarian columns.[5]

To escape the invaders' encirclement, on November 23, 1915, the government and supreme command made the joint decision to retreat across the mountains of Montenegro and Albania. The objective was to reach the Adriatic coast, where they would reorganise and reequip the Serbian Army with assistance from the Allies. The Serbs then retreated across the mountains in three columns; the retreat took the remnants of the army, the King, hundreds of thousands of civilian refugees, and war prisoners. Between November 1915 and January 1916, during the journey across the mountains, 77,455 soldiers and 160,000 civilians froze, starved to death, died of disease, or were killed by enemy raids. Austrian pilots used the new technology of the time, dropping bombs on the retreating columns in what has been called 'the first aerial bombardment of civilians.'[6]

Out of the 400,000 people who set out on the journey, only 120,000 soldiers and 60,000 civilians reached the Adriatic coast to be evacuated by Allied ships to the island of Corfu, where a Serbian government-in-exile headed by Prince-Regent Alexander and Nikola Pašić was established. Another 11,000 Serbs would later die of disease, malnutrition, or exposure sustained during the retreat. In some sources published following the conflict, the event was described as the greatest and most tragic episode of the Great War.[7]

## Background

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### Serbian campaigns

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#### 1914

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Further information: Serbian campaign (1914)

On July 28, 1914, a month after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary, the second-largest country in Europe, declared war on Serbia marking the beginning of World War I. The campaign represented the first significant military engagement between the Central Powers, mainly Austro-Hungary, and the Allied Powers, led by the Kingdom of Serbia. The campaign began in the night of 28-29 July with Austria-Hungary bombarding Belgrade. On 12 August, the Austro-Hungarian forces, under General Oskar Potiorek, initiated their first offensive into Serbia when the Balkanstreitkräfte, consisting of the 5th Army and 6th Army, attacked Serbia from the west and north.[8]

The "Austrian debacle" in The Illustrated War News of 30 December 1914

Despite initial setbacks, the Serbs, under General Radomir Putnik's command, used the terrain and strategic advantages to secure a decisive victory at the Battle of Cer. The blow to Habsburg prestige was incalculable, with Serbia marking the first Allied victory of World War I as all Austro-Hungarian forces were repelled out of Serbia. Following the initial failure, Austria-Hungary regrouped and launched a second invasion in September 1914. The Battle of the Drina saw the Serbs pushing the 5th Army back into Bosnia, forcing the remnants of the Balkanstreitkräfte to retreat in late September.[9] A third invasion launched in October 1914, resulted in the capture of Belgrade on 2 December 1914 before a successful Serbian counter-offensive at the Battle of Kolubara expelled the Central Powers forces from Serbia before the end of the month, concluding the campaign.[10] After being humiliated by "the peasant regiments of a small Balkan kingdom",[11] the blow to Habsburg prestige was "incalculable" and Franz Ferdinand's avenging remained unfulfilled.[12] The Serbian Campaign of 1914 concluded within the year and General Potiorek was relieved of command.[10]

#### 1915

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Further information: Serbian campaign (1915)

Central Powers attack on Serbia, October 1915

In early 1915, the German chief of the general staff von Falkenhayn convinced the Austro-Hungarian chief of staff von Hoetzendorf to launch a new invasion of Serbia. In September Bulgaria signed a treaty of alliance with Germany and quickly mobilized its army.[13] On 6 October 1915, combined German and Austro-Hungarian forces under the command of Field Marshall August von Mackensen attacked Serbia from the north and west with the intention of drawing the bulk of the Serbian forces along the Sava and Danube.[14]

On 11 October, without a previous declaration of war, the Bulgarians started making attacks on Serbian border positions. On 14 October Bulgaria finally declared war on Serbia and the First and Second Armies, under the command of General Boyadzhiev, advanced into the Timok region of northeastern Serbia[15] with the mission of cutting the vital rail line that ran from Salonika up the Vardar and Morava River valleys, and depriving Serbia of reinforcements and artillery ammunition.[16] Numbering nearly 300,000 men, the forces of Bulgaria quickly overwhelmed the weak Serbian units along the frontier.[15] The Serbian Army had 250,000 men of which a large number were already battling 300,000 Germans and Austrians in the north. In addition, Austrian troops soon started marching from Dalmatia.[17]

Facing a front of 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) against three armies and as promises of aid and reinforcements from the Allies fell through, the Supreme Command of the Serbian Army started an organized retreat towards Kragujevac and Niš.[17] On 6 November the Bulgarian First Army made contact with General Gallwitz's Eleventh German Army in the vicinity of Niš; on 10 November they crossed the Morava River about 18 miles (29 km) south of Niš and struck the Serbs. For two days, the greatly outnumbered Serbian army held Prokuplje but eventually had to retreat.[14] The pressure of the Austro-Hungarians, the Germans, and the Bulgarian First Army in the north and the Bulgarian Second Army advancing from the east forced the Serbs to retreat in a southwesterly direction into Kosovo.[18]

## Prelude

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### Kosovo offensive, 10 – 24 November

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Main article: Kosovo Offensive (1915)

In mid-November, the Serbian armies reached Pristina ahead of their pursuers, but were unable to break south through the blockade of the Bulgarian Second Army at Kačanik Pass near Skopje, to reach Salonika and establish the liaison with the French troops of General Sarrail.[14] The goal of Mackensen was to corner the Serbs in the Kosovo area and force them to fight a decisive final battle.[19]

Frontlines of the Serbian Army between October and November 1915.

The rupture of communications between Niš-Skopje-Salonika and the rupture of the liaison with the Allies brought the army into a most critical situation. Field Marshal Putnik began concentrating his troops for the purpose of securing access to the plateau of Gnjilane known as the "Field of Blackbirds".[3][18]

The Austrian Luftfahrtruppen, that until then provided air support to the Austro-Hungarian army and communications between the German Eleventh and Bulgarian First Armies,[20] started using reconnaissance aircraft to carry out bombing missions across the plain of Kosovo, striking the columns of refugees and blurring the lines between combatants and noncombatants in what has been called "the first-ever aerial bombardment of civilians".[21] Albanians hostile to Serbs mounted guerrilla actions picking off weak detachments, acting in revenge for the repression they endured following the transfer of the province from Ottoman to Serbian and Montenegrin territory two years earlier.[22][23]

The entire Bulgarian army, supported from the north by parts of the Eleventh German Army, now advanced against the Serbs. Following intense fighting on 23 November, Pristina and Mitrovica fell to the Central Powers and the Serbian government abandoned Prizren, its last temporary capital in Serbia.[24]

Only three possibilities were considered: capitulation and separate peace, a final honourable-but-desperate battle of annihilation, or further retreat. Only retreating and counterattacking were seriously considered, while capitulation was not an option on the table; the only possible avenue of escape lay to the southwest and northwest, over the towering Korab and Prokletije mountain ranges of Albania and Montenegro, part of the Dinaric Alps, a region with an altitude of over 6,000 feet (1,800 m) as the snow was beginning to fall. The Serbian government led by Prime Minister Nikola Pašić, Prince Regent Alexander and the Supreme Command under Field Marshall Radomir Putnik made the decision to order a general withdrawal and fight on from exile, planning to reorganise and reform the army with the help and support from the Allies.[17]

### Order of retreat, 25 November

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On 23 November, Vojvoda Putnik ordered all Serbian forces to use the last of the artillery ammunition and then bury the cannons, taking the breechblocks and sights with them; if burying the guns was impossible, they were to be rendered useless.[16] Putnik also ordered that, to save them from being captured by the enemy, every boy near military age, from twelve to eighteen years old, 36 000 in total, was to follow the army and join the retreat with the goal of saving the country's manhood and raising soldiers for the future front.[25] On 25 November 1915, an official order of retreat addressed to the commanders of all armies, was published by the Serbian High Command:[26]

> The only way out of this grave situation is a retreat to the Adriatic coast. There our army will be reorganised, furnished with food, arms, munitions, clothing, and all other necessities which our allies will send us, and we shall again be a fact with which our allies must reckon. The nation has not lost its being, it will continue to exist even though on foreign soil, so long as the ruler, the government and the army are there, no matter what the strength of the army may be.

> — Serbian High Command, 25 November 1915, [26]

## Retreat

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Directions of withdrawal of the Serbian army during the retreat through Montenegro and Albania.

The Serbian Army split into three columns heading towards the mountains of Albania and Montenegro, pursued by the Austro-Hungarian Tenth Mountain Brigade and by the German Alpine Corps.[14] The army's rock-bottom morale was boosted by the presence of the ailing, 71-year-old King Peter I, who had stepped aside on June 14 to let his son Prince Alexander rule as Regent but now resumed his throne to face the crisis with his people. The elderly monarch, who was almost blind, travelled through the mountains riding in an ox cart.[27] To evade General Mackensen's final encirclement effort, the Serbian army, and a mass of civilians fleeing the massacres perpetrated by Austro-Hungarian troops,[28] retreated along three routes, all converged on Lake Scutari, on the border of Albania and Montenegro, and from there headed towards the Adriatic.[29]

Upon reaching Albania Essad Pasha Toptani, an Albanian leader and former Ottoman General, who was a Serb ally and the one central authority left in Albania, provided protection where this was possible.[30] Where he was in control, his gendarmes gave support to retreating Serbian troops, but as the columns moved to territories in the north, attacks by Albanian tribesmen and irregulars became commonplace.[31] The Serb-Montenegrin troops' brutal actions in the First Balkan War, made many of the locals ready to take their revenge on the soldiers retreating through the mountain passes, continuing the cycle of revenge with killing and looting.[32]

### Retreating columns

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#### Northern columns

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The Northern column, composed of the First, Second and Third Army and the troops of the defence of Belgrade, took the route across southern Montenegro, from Peć to Scutari (Shkodër), via Rožaje, Andrijevica and Podgorica.[19][33]

It contained the largest contingent of Serbian troops and it also included a mobile medical unit The first Serbian-English Field Hospital, with two doctors, six nurses and six ambulance drivers. The unit was headed by British nurse and commissioned major, Mabel Stobart.[34] The retreat of this force to Andrijevica was to take place under the direction of the First Army, which was to occupy positions at Rožaje. Members of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in Serbia also evacuated following this route, at times alongside the army.[35]

The mission of the troops of the defence of Belgrade was to cover the retreat of the Army of the Timok as long as that army had not begun its movement of retreat, and then to retire in its turn.[7] Because of this, the northern column delayed its departure from Peć until 7 December. It also had the responsibility to act as a rearguard against an attack by the Austro-Hungarians, Bulgarians, and Germans. Tracing an arc from northwest to southwest through Montenegrin territory and skirting the northern border of Albania through the snow-covered mountains, hunger, exposure, and disease killed soldiers and civilians, as well as prisoners of war travelling with them, by the thousands.[36]

The northern column began to reach Scutari on 15 December. Serbian officers and artillery crews in Montenegro handed over 30 cannons to the Montenegrin Army,[16] Montenegrin forces played a key role in covering up the withdrawal, most notably against Austro-Hungarian forces in the Battle of Mojkovac.[37]

#### Central columns

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Serbian artillery retreating

The central column consisted of King Peter I, the court, the government and the General Staff took the route through central Kosovo across northern Albania, from Prizren to Shkodër via Lum and Pukë.[38]

Once across the Vizier's Bridge on the Drin River, the troops, who had retreated from Macedonia, continued west through Albania, ultimately to Lezhë. The Timok Division also continued to move south and then west through Albania to Durrës. It had the shortest route to the sea but encountered some resistance from hostile Albanians.[39]

Regent Alexander crossed it in just two and a half days and the Serbian government set off on 24 November, reaching Shkodër/Scutari four days later. The officers of the Supreme Command who accompanied the Chief of the General Staff Radomir Putnik took longer, leaving on 26 November and arriving in Shkodër on 6 December.[37]

#### Southern columns

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The southern column followed the third route of withdrawal, from Prizren to Lumë and further through the Albanian mountains to Debar and Struga.[39]

The southern column was the first to depart and the last to arrive at the coast. The southern route presented the most direct way to make contact with Sarrail's Army of the Orient. The General Headquarters had asked the commanders of these groups to keep in constant telegraphic communication, but from the first day of the operations this was found to be impossible. The geography of the country did not allow of any other means of communication, so that the commanders of these groups were left to their own devices during the whole movement.[40]

All the troops part of this group were placed under the orders of the commander of the Army of the Timok.[7] The column left on 25 November and moved south all the way to Elbasan. Along the way it had to contend with Albanian resistance and Bulgarian attacks; on 10 December, the Bulgarians attacked Serbian positions along the crest of the Jablanica mountain range.[41] As the Bulgarians again reached Struga before them, Serbian soldiers and civilians turned southwesterly, marching down the Albanian coast to Valona and across via Tirana reaching Durrës on 21 December.[40]

## Albanian coast

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As early as 20 November, Pašić sent an urgent message to Serbia's allies, asking for supplies, particularly food, to be sent to the Adriatic ports. When the Northern and Central columns arrived in Shkodër, they found the harbour empty of the foreign ships they had expected and hoped for. Learning that some supplies had come ashore in Durrës, 60 kilometres (37 mi) away, the columns of troops and refugees were sent further south.[15]

Food was dispatched from France and Britain but it was still in Brindisi, Italy, the chosen port for the shipment of materials.[42] Due to the presence of Austrian naval forces in the Adriatic, and after a convoy sent to Skadar earlier was destroyed by the Austro-Hungarian navy,[15] the Italians had only sent a few vessels.[15] On 22 November Austrian destroyers sank the Italian steamers Palatino and Gallinara, which were sailing from Brindisi to Saint Giovanni di Medua and Durrës on the Albanian coast, while the Unione another Italian vessel transporting supplies was forced to scuttle after being attacked by a submarine.[43]

On 5 December the Italian steamer Benedetto Giovanni, alongside the Greek steamer Thira, was sank near Saint Giovanni di Medua by an Austrian cruiser.[43] On 8 and 9 January two more Italian ships Brindisi and Città di Palermo were sunk by the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Eventually, a decision was made to evacuate the Serbian Army, and its accompanying civilians, to the French-occupied Greek island of Corfu and as far as Bizerte in French Tunisia.[44] This decision, made primarily by the French did not involve any discussions with the Greek authorities.[15] The refugees were to be transported from Durrës and Saint Giovanni di Medua to Vlora where they would board three large French ships and another one provided by the Italian Royal Navy and transported to the Tunisian port of Bizerte.[45] On 11 January 1916 French soldiers, later joined by Italian and British, started the occupation of Corfu, in preparation for the arrival of the Serbian troops.[46]

### Evacuation, 15 January – 5 April 1916

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Serbian troops waiting to be evacuated to Corfu c.1916

The evacuation started on 15 January; the journey was made from three ports, San Giovanni di Medua, Durrës and Valona (Vlorë).[47] Altogether, 45 Italian, 25 French and eleven British transport ships were employed in the evacuation; they carried out 202, 101 and 19 voyages, respectively.[48] The Duke of Abruzzi and Vice Admiral Emanuele Cutinelli Rendina, commander of Italian naval forces in the southern Adriatic (with headquarters in Brindisi), were tasked with planning the evacuation by sea; it was established that larger ships would load the troops in Durres and Vlore, whereas smaller vessels would be employed in San Giovanni di Medua. Rear Admiral Guglielmo Capomazza supervised the evacuation in Vlorë, Albania.[48]

On 14 January the Serbian government, ministers, and the members of the diplomatic corps boarded an Italian ship, the Citta di Bari, for Brindisi.[49] On 6 February the Serbian supreme command and Regent Alexander were evacuated to Corfu, where around 120,000 evacuees had arrived by 15 February, and around 135,000 ten days later. Up to 10,000 evacuees were taken to Bizerta around the same time. The sick were transported to the Greek island of Vido, to prevent epidemics. The Italians took over the majority of Habsburg prisoners, and transferred them to the uninhabited island of Asinara (off the coast of Sardinia). Nearly 5,000 refugees, mostly women, children, and elderly people were taken to Corsica accompanied by the Serbian Relief Fund and the Scottish Women's military hospital.[50]

Most of the Serbian troops had been evacuated by 19 February. On 23 February 1916, the transfer of the infantry was completed including 6,000 Montenegrin soldiers who had joined them.[51] The cavalry division who had started evacuating on 27 February 1916 but had to wait for better weather, was last to embark on 5 April 1916, which marked the end of the operation.[37][52] A total of 260,895 men were evacuated, including Serbian and Montenegrin soldiers and civilian refugees, the royal families, the Serbian government and members of delegations.[52]

## Aftermath

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Serbia Day, organized in Paris for the benefit of the Serbian Relief Fund on 25 June 1916. Poster by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen

According to the official statistics from 1919, 77,455 Serbian soldiers died, while 77,278 went missing. The worst fate befell the Southern Column, where approximately 36,000 young boys, some who would have become conscripts in 1916, but some as young as twelve, had been ordered by the Army to join the retreat; within a month about 23,000 of them died.[53]

Of the estimated 220,000 civilian refugees who had set off for the Adriatic coast from Kosovo, only about 60,000 survived. Those who survived were so weak that thousands of them died from sheer exhaustion in the weeks after their rescue. Because the rock composition of the island made it hard to dig graves, those who died on the journey were buried at sea. Bodies were lowered from French ships into the depths of the Ionian Sea, near the Greek island of Vido; more than 5,000 Serbs are believed to have been buried this way. The sea around Vido is known as "The Blue Graveyard" (Plava grobnica).[54]

Field Marshal Putnik travelled to France for medical treatment, where he died the following year.[55] Nearly 5,000 Serbian refugees, mostly women and children were sent to Corsica, evacuated from Albania, they were attended by the staff of the Scottish Women's military hospital who had travelled with them, an operation financed by the Serbian Relief Fund based in London. Many of the young boys who had survived the retreat were sent to France and Britain for schooling.[56]

### Occupied Serbia

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Main articles: Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia and Bulgarian occupation of Serbia (World War I)

Serbia was divided into separate Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian military occupation zones. In the Austro-Hungarian zone of occupation (northern and central Serbia), the Military General Governorate of Serbia was established with its center in Belgrade. In the territory occupied by the Bulgarians, a military government was set up with its center in Niš, the area was divided into two administrative zones. Both the Austrian and the Bulgarian occupation regimes were very harsh, the population was exposed to various measures of repression, including mass internment, forced labour, concentration camps for political opponents, starvation, Denationalization and Bulgarisation policy.[57]

Kosovo was divided into two Austro-Hungarian occupational zones: Metohija entered the Austro-Hungarian Military Government of Montenegro, while a smaller part of Kosovo with Mitrovica and Vucitrn became part of the Austro-Hungarian Military Government of Serbia. The greater part of Kosovo – Pristina, Prizren, Gnjilane, Urosevac, Orahovac was included in the Bulgarian Military Region of Macedonia.[58]

### Salonika front

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During 1916, more than 110,000 Serbian troops were transferred to Salonika, where they joined the Allied army after Greece entered the war; some six Serbian infantry divisions and one cavalry division, named after regions and rivers in their homeland would eventually return to serve, playing a key role in the breakthrough of the Macedonian Front in September 1917, and the liberation of their homeland a year later.[2]

### Legacy

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The great retreat is considered by Serbs to be one of the greatest tragedies in their nation's history.[7] It is remembered, using biblical symbolism, as the Albanian Golgotha, a sacred sacrifice followed by the national 'resurrection' of Serbia's victory at the end of the war.[59]

## Images

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The Great Retreat

* King Peter of Serbia during the retreat by Frank O. Salisbury

* Serbian troops and refugees

* Horse artillery unit

* Cavalry crossing the Black Drin

* Radomir Putnik carried by bearers

* The Column of the First Serbian-English Field Hospital

## See also

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* Commemorative Medal of the Great Serbian Retreat
* Gde Cveta Limun Žut, (2006). A documentary film about the Serbian army's retreat.
* King Peter of Serbia, (2018). A feature film starring Lazar Ristovski.
* Kreće se lađa francuska, A World War I song composed by Branislav Milosavljević in Corfu.
* Serbian Museum of Corfu
* Tamo Daleko, A World War I song composed in Corfu.

## References

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### Citations

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1. ^ Reader's Digest, 2000
2. ^ a b Hart 2015, p 189
3. ^ a b Dinardo 2015, p. 122
4. ^ Holger Afflerbach 2015, p. 120.
5. ^ Hall 2014, p. 280
6. ^ Motes 1999, p. 14.
7. ^ a b c d Gordon-Smith 1920, p.1
8. ^ Hart 2015, p 92
9. ^ Schindler 2015, p. 560
10. ^ a b War in History, p. 159-195
11. ^ van Ypersele, p. 287
12. ^ Schindler 2015, p. 561
13. ^ hall 2014, p 162
14. ^ a b c d Dinardo 2015, p. 110

15. ^ a b c d e f Buttar 2015, p.341
16. ^ a b c Sanders 2016, p. 248
17. ^ a b c Glenny 2012, p.334
18. ^ a b Richard C. Hall 2010, p. 46.
19. ^ a b Dinardo 2015, p. 106
20. ^ Murphy 2005, p. 184.
21. ^ Vickers 1998, p. 90.
22. ^ Ramet 2006, p. 48
23. ^ Tim Judah 2008, p. 100.
24. ^ Dinardo 2015, p. 19
25. ^ Winter & Baggett 1996, p. 141.
26. ^ a b Dinardo 2015, p. 115
27. ^ Pearson 2004, p. 93
28. ^ Vickers 1999, p. 88
29. ^ RTS 2016
30. ^ Pavlović, p 163
31. ^ Tallon 2014, p. 450
32. ^ Mojzes 2011, p. 42.
33. ^ Sanders 2016, p. 247
34. ^ Stobart 1916, p. 243
35. ^ "Heroic Scottish Nurses – Their Calm Courage in Serbian Trek – Interviews with Brave Scotswomen – Tragedies of the Flight". The Daily Record and Mail. 25 December 1915. p. 6.
36. ^ Dinardo 2015, p. 116
37. ^ a b c Mitrović 2007, p. 161
38. ^ Hall 2010, p. 46
39. ^ a b Hall 2010, p. 280
40. ^ a b Hall 2014, p. 475
41. ^ Pearson 2004, p. 94
42. ^ Pavlović 2019, p. 212.
43. ^ a b Pavlović 2019, p. 213.
44. ^ Thomas, Babac 2012, p. 95
45. ^ Pavlović 2019, p. 217.
46. ^ Pavlović 2019, p. 218.
47. ^ Gordon-Smith 1920, p. 195
48. ^ a b Pier Paolo Ramoino, Il salvataggio dell'esercito serbo, Center of Strategic Studies of the University of Florence
49. ^ Pearson 2004, p. 95
50. ^ Alan Kramer 2008, p. 142.
51. ^ Pavlović 2019, p. 221.
52. ^ a b Pavlović 2019, p. 222.
53. ^ Sass 2018, p. 107.
54. ^ Askew 1916, p. 360
55. ^ Buttar 2015, p.
56. ^ Manz, Panayi & Stibbe 2018, p. 208.
57. ^ Mojzes 2011, p. 41-42.
58. ^ Misha Glenny 2012, p. 333.
59. ^ Newman 2015, p. 37.

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* Ramet, Sabrina P. (2006). The Three Yugoslavias: State-building and Legitimation, 1918-2005. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253346568.
* Reader's Digest Association (2000). The War to End Wars, 1914-18. Reader's Digest. ISBN 978-0-7621-0288-4.
* Sanders Marble (2016). King of Battle: Artillery in World War I. History of Warfare. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-30728-5.
* Sass, E. (2018). 101 Things You Didn't Know about World War I: The People, Battles, and Aftermath of the Great War. Adams Media. ISBN 978-1-5072-0723-9.
* John R. Schindler (December 2015). Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-61234-804-9.
* Mabel Annie Stobart (1916). The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere. Hodder and Stoughton.
* Tallon, James N. (2014). "Albania's Long World War I, 1912–1925". Studia Historyczne. 4.
* Nigel Thomas; Dusan Babac (20 May 2012). Armies in the Balkans 1914–18. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-1-78096-735-6.
* Vickers, M. (1998). Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11382-3.
* Miranda Vickers (1999). The Albanians: A Modern History. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-86064-541-9.

## Further reading

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* Jakovljević, Stevan J., 1890-1962. (2003). Srpska trilogija (Serbian trilogy) (in Serbian). Istoćnik. ISBN 86-83487-18-0. OCLC 78922797.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
* Petrović, Rastko (1961). Dan šesti (The Sixth Day) (in Serbian). Nolit Bgd. ASIN B0089W0WZ4.
* Bojic, Milutin (2016). Plava grobnica (or Ode to a Blue Tomb) (in Serbian). Prometej. ISBN 978-8651511595.
* Geert Buelens (16 February 2016). Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe. Verso Books. pp. 139–. ISBN 978-1-78478-150-7.
* James Lyon (30 July 2015). Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4725-8005-4.
* Stevan K. Pavlowitch (2014). A History of the Balkans 1804-1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-90017-7.
* "The Luck of Thirteen, Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia". Project Gutenberg. 2005-12-12.

## External links

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* Zarić, Sladjana (2016). "From Serbia to Corfu, the path of the Albanian Golgotha". www.rts.rs (in Serbian).
* Life in occupied Serbia 1915 – 1918, Magazine ″Defense″, special edition No 135, Miljan Milkich, December 15, 2015. (Serbian)
* Golgotha of Serbian Army, Magazine ″Defense″, special edition No 136, Snezana Nikolich, January 1, 2016. (Serbian)
* In the bosom of Bizerte, Magazine ″Defense″, special edition No 138, Snezana Nikolich, February 15, 2016. (Serbian)
* Corfu – Island of Salvation, Magazine ″Defense″, special edition No 148, Milan Milkic, July 15, 2016. (Serbian)

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* Outline
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* Economic history
* Geography
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* Technology

Theatres|

| European|

* Balkans
* Serbia
* Western Front
* Eastern Front
* Romania
* Italian Front

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Middle Eastern|

* Gallipoli
* Sinai and Palestine
* Caucasus
* Persia
* Mesopotamia
* South Arabia
* Central Arabia

African|

* South West
* East
* Kamerun
* Togoland
* North

Asian and Pacific|

* Tsingtao
* German Samoa
* German New Guinea

Naval warfare|

* U-boat campaign
* North Atlantic
* Mediterranean

Principal
participants

| Entente Powers|

* Leaders
* Belgium
* Brazil
* China
* France
* French Empire
* Greece
* Italy
* Japan
* Empire of Japan
* Montenegro
* Portuguese Empire
* Romania
* Russia
* Russian Empire
* Russian Republic
* Serbia
* Siam
* United Kingdom
* British Empire
* United States

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Central Powers|

* Leaders
* Germany
* Austria-Hungary
* Ottoman Empire
* Bulgaria
* Senussi
* South African Republic
* Darfur

Timeline|

| Pre-War conflicts|

* Franco-Prussian War (1870–71)
* Scramble for Africa (1880–1914)
* Russo-Japanese War (1905)
* Tangier Crisis (1905–06)
* Bosnian Crisis (1908–09)
* Agadir Crisis (1911)
* Italo-Turkish War (1911–12)
* First Balkan War (1912–13)
* Second Balkan War (1913)

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Prelude|

* Origins
* Historiography
* Sarajevo assassination
* Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo
* July Crisis

1914|

* German invasion of Belgium
* Battle of the Frontiers
* Battle of Cer
* Battle of Galicia
* Russian invasion of East Prussia
* Battle of Tannenberg
* Siege of Tsingtao
* First Battle of the Masurian Lakes
* Battle of Grand Couronné
* First Battle of the Marne
* Siege of Przemyśl
* Race to the Sea
* First Battle of Ypres
* Black Sea raid
* Battle of Kolubara
* Battle of Sarikamish
* Christmas truce

1915|

* Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes
* Battle of Łomża
* Second Battle of Ypres
* Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
* Battle of Gallipoli
* Second Battle of Artois
* Battles of the Isonzo
* Gorlice–Tarnów offensive
* Great Retreat
* Bug-Narew Offensive
* Siege of Novogeorgievsk
* Vistula–Bug offensive
* Second Battle of Champagne
* Kosovo offensive
* Siege of Kut
* Battle of Loos
* Battle of Robat Karim

1916|

* Erzurum offensive
* Battle of Verdun
* Lake Naroch offensive
* Battle of Asiago
* Battle of Jutland
* Battle of the Somme
* first day
* Brusilov offensive
* Baranovichi offensive
* Battle of Romani
* Monastir offensive
* Battle of Transylvania

1917|

* Capture of Baghdad
* February Revolution
* Zimmermann telegram
* Second battle of Arras
* Second battle of the Aisne
* Kerensky offensive
* Battle of Mărăști
* Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)
* Battle of Mărășești
* Third Battle of Oituz
* Battle of Caporetto
* Southern Palestine offensive
* October Revolution
* Battle of La Malmaison
* Battle of Cambrai
* Armistice of Focșani
* Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers

1918|

* Operation Faustschlag
* Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
* German spring offensive
* Zeebrugge Raid
* Treaty of Bucharest of 1918
* Battle of Goychay
* Second Battle of the Piave River
* Second Battle of the Marne
* Hundred Days Offensive
* Vardar offensive
* Battle of Megiddo
* Third Transjordan attack
* Meuse–Argonne offensive
* Battle of Vittorio Veneto
* Armistice of Salonica
* Armistice of Mudros
* Armistice of Villa Giusti
* Second Romanian campaign
* Armistice with Germany
* Armistice of Belgrade

Co-belligerent conflicts|

* Somaliland campaign (1900–1920)
* Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
* Maritz rebellion (1914–15)
* Muscat rebellion (1913–1920)
* Zaian War (1914–1921)
* Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917)
* Ovambo Uprising (1914-1917)
* Kelantan rebellion (1915)
* Senussi campaign (1915–1917)
* Volta-Bani War (1915–1917)
* National Protection War
* Arab Revolt (1916-1918)
* Central Asian Revolt (1916–17)
* Invasion of Darfur (1916)
* Easter Rising (1916)
* Kaocen revolt (1916–17)
* Russian Revolution (1917)
* Finnish Civil War (1918)

Post-War conflicts|

* Russian Civil War (1917–1921)
* Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917–1921)
* Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–1920)
* Armeno-Georgian War (1918)
* German Revolution (1918–19)
* Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920)
* Hungarian–Romanian War (1918–19)
* Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19)
* Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920)
* Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920)
* Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918–1920)
* Polish–Ukrainian War (1918–19)
* Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
* Egyptian Revolution (1919)
* Polish–Lithuanian War (1919–1920)
* Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921)
* Irish War of Independence (1919–1921)
* Turkish War of Independence
* Anglo-Turkish War (1918–1923)
* Franco-Turkish War (1918–1921)
* Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)
* Turkish–Armenian War (1920)
* Iraqi Revolt (1920)
* Vlora War (1920)
* Franco-Syrian War (1920)
* Soviet–Georgian War (1921)

Aspects|

| Warfare|

* Aviation
* Strategic bombing
* Chemical weapons
* Cryptography
* Horses
* Logistics
* Naval warfare
* Convoy system
* Trench warfare

| Conscription|

* Australia
* Canada
* Ottoman Empire
* United Kingdom
* Ireland
* United States

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Casualties /
Civilian impact

* British casualties
* Parliamentarians
* Ottoman casualties
* Sports
* Rugby
* Olympians

| Disease|

* 1899–1923 cholera pandemic
* 1915 typhus epidemic in Serbia
* Spanish flu

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Occupations|

* Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia
* Bulgarian occupations
* Albania
* Serbia
* German occupations
* Belgium
* Luxembourg
* Northeast France
* Ober Ost
* Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
* Russian occupations
* Eastern Galicia
* Western Armenia

POWs|

* Germans
* in the United States
* Italians
* POW locations
* Canada
* Germany / camps
* Switzerland

Refugees|

* Belgian refugees
* Netherlands
* United Kingdom

War crimes|

* Allied blockades
* Eastern Mediterranean
* Mount Lebanon famine
* Germany
* Deportations from East Prussia
* Destruction of Kalisz
* Sack of Dinant
* Late Ottoman genocides
* Armenian genocide
* Assyrian genocide (Sayfo)
* Pontic Greek genocide
* Rape of Belgium
* Urkun (Kyrgyzstan)
* Massacres of Albanians
* Ukrainian Canadian internment

Diplomacy

| Entry into the war|

* Austria-Hungary
* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Japan
* Ottoman Empire
* Russia
* United Kingdom
* United States

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Declarations of war|

* Austria-Hungary against Serbia
* UK against Germany
* Ottomans against the Triple Entente
* USA against Germany
* USA against Austria-Hungary

Agreements|

* Constantinople Agreement
* Treaty of London
* Damascus Protocol
* Bulgaria–Germany treaty
* Treaty of Darin
* Sykes–Picot Agreement
* Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement
* Paris Economy Pact
* Treaty of Bucharest
* Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne

Peace treaties

* Modus vivendi of Acroma
* Treaties of Brest-Litovsk
* Russia–Central Powers
* Ukraine–Central Powers
* Treaty of Bucharest
* Paris Peace Conference
* Treaty of Versailles
* Treaty of St. Germain
* Treaty of Neuilly
* Treaty of Trianon
* Treaty of Sèvres
* Treaty of Lausanne

Other|

* Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo
* Mutilated victory
* The Golden Virgin
* They shall not pass

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Wars and battles involving Serbs

Medieval|

| Serbian–Bulgarian|

* Bulgar–Serb War (839–842)
* Bulgar–Serb War (853)
* Bulgarian–Serbian wars of 917–924
* Bulgarian–Serbian border revolt
* Bulgarian-Serb War (998)
* Bulgarian-Serbian War (1202)
* Bulgarian-Serbian War (1203)
* Bulgarian-Serbian War (1290)
* Bulgarian-Serbian War (1291)
* Bulgarian-Serbian War (1330)
* Battle of Velbazhd

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Serbian–Ottoman|

* Early skirmishes
* Battle of Gallipoli
* Battle of Stephaniana
* Battle of Demotika in 1352
* Battle of Sırp Sındığı in 1364
* Fall of the Serbian Empire
* Battle of Maritsa in 1371
* Battle of Dubravnica in 1381
* Battle of Savra in 1385
* Battle of Pločnik in 1386
* Battle of Kosovo in 1389
* Serbian Despotate
* Battle of Karanovasa
* Battle of Tripolje in 1402
* Siege of Novo Brdo in 1412
* Battle of Vitosha Pass in 1413
* Battle of Carmorlu
* First Scutari War
* Second Scutari War
* Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1425
* Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1427
* Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1437
* Battle of Trnava (1430)
* Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1438
* Ottoman invasion of Serbia (1439–1444)
* Crusade of Varna
* Battle of Nish (1443)
* Battle of Zlatitsa in 1443
* Battle of Kunovica in 1444
* Ottoman invasion of Serbia (1454–1455)
* Battle of Kruševac in 1454
* Battle of Leskovac in 1454
* Ottoman invasion of Serbia in 1456
* Siege of Belgrade
* Siege of Smederevo
* Ottoman invasion and conquest of Serbia in 1459
* Battle of Breadfield in 1479
* Ottoman conquest of Zeta in 1499

Serbian–Byzantine|

* Serb Uprising of 1038–1042
* Battle of Bar
* Slav Uprising in Pomoravlje
* Battle of Zvečan (1094)
* Battle of Haram
* Siege of Ras (1127)
* Battle of Tara (1150)
* Byzantine–Hungarian War (1149–1155)
* Siege of Braničevo (1154)
* Battle of Pantina
* Byzantine–Hungarian War (1127–1129)
* Byzantine civil war of 1321–1328
* Serbian invasion of Macedonia led by Syrgiannes Palaiologos (1334)
* Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347

Other|

* Hungarian invasions of Europe
* Magyar–Serb conflict
* Byzantine–Hungarian War (1127–1129)
* Battle of Sirmium
* Battle of Gacko
* Serbian conflict with the Nogai Horde
* Mongol invasion of Bulgaria and Serbia
* Mačva War
* Hungarian–Serbian War (1321-1324)
* War of Hum (1326–1329)
* Serbian civil war of 1331
* Serbian nobility conflict (1369)
* Battle of Rovine
* Battle of Nicopolis
* Battle of Ankara
* Battle of Kosmidion
* Battle of Çamurlu
* Battle of Despotovac
* Siege of Belgrade (1440)
* Battle of Kosovo (1448)
* Fall of Constantinople

Foreign rule|

| Habsburgs|

* Jovan Nenad's uprising
* Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528
* Battle of Szőlős
* Battle of Sződfalva
* Battle of Keresztes
* Great Turkish War
* Siege of Belgrade (1688)
* Battle of Batočina
* Battle of Niš (1689)
* Siege of Belgrade (1690)
* Battle of Lugos
* Rákóczi's War of Independence
* Battle of Saint Gotthard (1705)
* Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)
* Siege of Belgrade (1717)
* Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)
* Battle of Zsibó
* Battle of Trenčín
* Battle of Petrovaradin
* Battle of Banja Luka
* Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791)

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Ottomans|

* Long War (Ottoman wars) (1593–1606)
* Banat Uprising (1594)
* Serb Uprising of 1596–1597
* Battle of Mohács (1687)
* Uprising in Vučitrn
* Serb uprising of 1737–1739
* Kočina Krajina Serb rebellion
* Battle of Martinići (1796)
* Battle of Krusi
* Battle of Lopate

Venice|

* Morean War
* Cretan War (1645–1669)
* Great Turkish War
* Battle on Vrtijeljka
* Battle of Slankamen
* Battle of Senta

Russia|

* Serbian Hussar Regiment
* Pruth River Campaign
* War of the Polish Succession
* Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743)
* Seven Years' War

19th century|

| Serbian Revolution|

* First Serbian Uprising
* Vračar
* Rudnik
* Svileuva
* Batočina and Jagodina
* Kragujevac
* Drlupa
* Čokešina
* Šabac
* Požarevac
* Karanovac
* Adakale
* Ivankovac
* Rudnik
* Vrbica
* Mišar
* Deligrad
* Belgrade (1806)
* Liberation of Belgrade
* Loznica
* Malajnica and Štubik
* Čegar
* Jasika
* Prahovo
* Suvodol
* Drina
* Varvarin
* Loznica
* Mačva
* Ravnje
* Hadži Prodan's Revolt
* Second Serbian Uprising
* Ljubić
* Čačak
* Palež
* Požarevac
* Rudnik
* Družetić
* Kragujevac
* Jagodina
* Karanovac
* Batočina
* Užice
* Valjevo
* Batočina

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Ottoman|

* Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1852–1853)
* Battle of Grahovac
* Battle of Kolašin
* Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1861–1862)
* Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–1878)
* Battle of Vučji Do
* Battle of Fundina
* Battles for Plav and Gusinje
* Velika attacks
* Battle of Novšiće
* Battle of Murino

Other|

* Kumanovo uprising
* Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814
* Jančić's rebellion
* Priest Jovica's Rebellion
* Several battles of Hungarian Revolution of 1848
* Battle of Vršac (1849)
* Serbian-Turkish Wars (1876–1878)
* Battle of Vranje
* Siege of Cattaro
* Herzegovina uprising (1852–1862)
* Krivošije uprising (1869)
* Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
* AU-BiH War
* Battle of Jajce (1878)
* Battle of Vitez (1878)
* Battle of Sarajevo (1878)
* Serbo-Bulgarian War
* Battle of Pirot
* Battle of Slivnitsa

20th century|

| Macedonian Struggle|

* Fight on Šuplji Kamen
* Fight on Čelopek
* Fight in Tabanovce
* Fight in Velika Hoča
* Fight on Čelopek (1906)
* Battle of Pirot (1913)

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Balkan Wars|

* First Balkan War
* Battle of Kumanovo
* Battle of Prilep
* Battle of Monastir
* Siege of Scutari
* Siege of Adrianople
* Siege of Odrin (1912–1913)
* Second Balkan War
* Battle of Bregalnica
* Battle of Kalimanci
* Battle of Knjaževac
* Siege of Vidin (1913)
* Ohrid–Debar uprising

World War I|

* Montenegrin campaign
* Battle of Mojkovac
* Serbian campaign
* Battle of Cer
* Battle of the Crna Bend (1916)
* Battle of Bazargic
* Battle of Dobro Pole
* Battle of the Drina
* Battle of Florina
* Battle of Kaymakchalan
* Battle of Kolubara
* Kosovo offensive (1915)
* Liberation of Serbia, Albania and Montenegro (1918)
* Battle of Malka Nidzhe
* Macedonian front
* Monastir offensive
* Morava Offensive
* Ovče Pole Offensive
* Vardar offensive
* Srem Offensive
* Toplica Uprising

Interwar|

* Carinthia War
* Uprising in Drenica
* Christmas Uprising
* Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
* Albanian-Yugoslav Border War (1921)
* Drenica-Junik Uprising

World War II|

* Invasion of Yugoslavia
* Uprising in Serbia (1941)
* Uprising in Montenegro (1941)
* June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina
* Battle of Novi Pazar
* Battle of Pljevlja
* Battle of Kozara
* Battle of Loznica (1941)
* Battle of Livno
* Battle of Neretva
* Battle of the Sutjeska
* Raid on Drvar
* Battle of Knin
* Battle of Mostar
* Battle of Lijevče Field
* 1942 Montenegro offensive
* Bihać Operation
* Battle of Batina
* Belgrade Offensive
* Capture of Banja Koviljača
* Case Black
* Case White
* Operation Draufgänger
* Kozara Offensive
* Battle of Kupres (1942)
* Battle of Višegrad
* Mostar operation
* Nagykanizsa–Körmend Offensive
* Niš operation
* Battle of Odžak
* Capture of Olovo (1941)
* Operation Alfa
* Operation Delphin
* Operation Kopaonik
* Operation Kugelblitz
* Operation Mihailovic
* Operation Southeast Croatia
* Operation Trio
* Operation Uzice
* Battle of Poljana
* Operation Prijedor
* Siege of Rogatica (1941)
* Operation Rösselsprung (1944)
* Kosovo Operation (1944)
* Operation Spring Awakening
* Srb uprising
* Stratsin-Kumanovo operation
* Syrmian Front
* Battle of Zvornik
* Battle of Sarajevo (1945)
* Battle of Zelengora

Croatian War|

* Pakrac clash
* Plitvice Lakes incident
* Battle of Borovo Selo
* Operation Stinger
* 1991 Yugoslav campaign in Croatia
* Battle of Osijek
* Battle of Vukovar
* Battle of Gospić
* Battle of Šibenik
* Battle of Zadar
* Battle of Kusonje
* Battle of the Barracks
* Siege of Varaždin Barracks
* Siege of Bjelovar Barracks
* Battle of the Dalmatian Channels
* Siege of Dubrovnik
* Operation Otkos 10
* Operation Orkan 91
* Operation Whirlwind
* Operation Baranja
* Operation Jackal
* Battle of the Miljevci Plateau
* Operation Tiger
* Operation Maslenica
* Operation Medak Pocket
* Operation Winter '94
* Operation Flash
* Operation Summer '95
* Operation Storm

Bosnian War|

* Battle of Bosanski Brod
* Battle of Kupres
* Siege of Sarajevo
* Siege of Srebrenica
* Siege of Goražde
* Siege of Doboj
* Operation Jackal
* Siege of Bihać (1992–95)
* Operation Vrbas '92
* Operation Corridor 92
* Operation Bura
* Kravica attack
* Siege of Mostar
* Operation Irma
* Operation Bøllebank
* Operation Tiger
* Battle of Kupres
* Operation Amanda
* Operation Spider
* Operation Winter '94
* Battle of Vlašić
* Operation Leap 1
* Battle of Orašje
* Operation Leap 2
* Operation Summer '95
* Battle of Vrbanja Bridge
* Battle of Vozuća
* Operation Miracle
* Operation Mistral 2
* Operation Sana
* Operation Una
* Operation Southern Move
* NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* 1995 Pale air strikes
* Operation Deny Flight
* Operation Deliberate Force
* Operation Maritime Monitor

Kosovo War|

* Insurgency in Kosovo
* Albanian–Yugoslav border incident (December 1998)
* Albania–Yugoslav border incident (April 1999)
* April 23, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush
* Attack on Orahovac
* Attack on Prekaz
* Battle of Lođa
* Battle of Oraovica
* Battle of Belaćevac Mine
* Battle of Podujevo
* December 14, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush
* Battle of Glođane
* July 18, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border clashes
* Battle of Junik
* Battle of Košare
* Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
* Prizren incident (1999)
* NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
* Dubrava Prison bombings and executions
* 1999 F-117A shootdown

21st century|

| Peacekeeping|

* Central African Republic
* Cyprus
* DR Congo
* Ivory Coast
* Lebanon
* Liberia
* Mali
* Somalia

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