The First Battle of Çatalca was one of the heaviest battles of the

First Balkan War The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...

fought between . It was initiated as an attempt of the combined Bulgarian First and

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armies, under the overall command of

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Radko Dimitriev, to defeat the Ottoman Çatalca Army and break through the last defensive line before the capital

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

. The high casualties however forced the Bulgarians to call off the attack.Vŭchkov, pp. 99-103

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Photographs from Çatalca

The Battle of Çatalca
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