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The order of battle of the Serbian Army in the First Balkan War is a list of the Serbian units that fought the major campaigns against the Ottoman army from October 1912 to May 1913. Apart from the infantry divisions of the Serbian army, one Bulgarian infantry division was also part of it.


Order of battle


First Army

Under the command of Crown Prince Alexander Karađorđević. Chief of Staff: Colonel Petar Bojović.


Second Army

Commander: General
Stepa Stepanović Stepan "Stepa" Stepanović ( sr-cyr, Степан Степа Степановић, ;  – 29 April 1929) was a Serbian military commander who fought in the Serbo-Turkish War, the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the First Balkan War, the Second Balk ...


Third Army

Commander: General
Božidar Janković Božidar Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Божидар Јанковић; 7 December 1849 – 7 July 1920) was a Serbian army general commander of the Serbian Third Army during the First Balkan War between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire. In 1901 h ...


Army of Ibar

Commander: General
Mihailo Živković Mihailo Zivković-Gvozdeni (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia 29 August 1856 - Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 28 April 1930) was a Serbian general and a minister of war. Zivković-Gvozdeni commanded forces in the Serbian-Turkish wars, the Serbo-B ...


Javor brigade

Commander: Colonel
Milivoje Anđelković Milivoje Anđelković (), better known by his nickname Kajafas, was a Serbian colonel during the early 20th-century. He participated with his unit in the May Coup (Serbia), May Coup. During the First Balkan War in 1912, he commanded the Javorski ...
* III supernumerary infantry regiment ( I line ) * IV infantry regiment ( II line) - LtCol Vilotije Marković * 3rd battery ( detached from Drina divisional artillery division ) * 4th mountain battery ( II line ) * 1st Užice position battery * 6th heavy battery 120 mm * cavalry squadron


See also

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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 ...
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Kingdom of Serbia The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Princi ...


Notes

:A.In the Royal Serbian Army, artillery and cavalry divisions (divizion) were units of battalion size not to be confused with the higher level of divisions (divizija) which had geographic names; The Serbian Army was divided into five divisional area: Morava, Drina, Danube, Shumadia and Timok. Each of them was made of three regional regimental commands with four battalion districts each. Each divisional area provided one first-call division, one second-call division, one or two cavalry squadrons and 6 station batteries."Serbia's wars of liberation and unification from 1912-1918" by Aleksandar Stojićević, p. 26


References


Literature

* * *{{cite book, author1=Borislav Ratkovic, title=Mobilization of the Serbian Army for the First Balkan War, October 1912, publisher= Kiraly and Djordjevic, East Central Europe First Balkan War Balkan Wars orders of battle History of the Serbian Army Royal Serbian Army Military units and formations of Serbia in the Balkan Wars