The Struma Corps or Usturma Corps of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...

( Turkish: ''Usturma Kolordusu'') was one of the

corps Corps (; plural ''corps'' ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the formation was first named as such in 1805. The size of a corps varies great ...

under the command of the Ottoman Western Army. It was formed in Ustruma ( Struma) area during 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 ...

Balkan Wars

Order of Battle, October 19, 1912

On October 19, 1912, the detachment was structured as follows:Edward J. Erickson, ''Defeat in Detail, The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913'', Westport, Praeger, 2003, p. 170. *Struma Corps HQ (Bulgarian Front, under the command of the Western Army) ** 14th Division **Serez Redif Division **Nevrekop Detachment

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