Topic summary
Macedonian front
France
Serbia
British Empire
Greece(from 1917)
Italy- Russia(1916–1917)
Honorary Russian Legion(from 1917)
- Armée d'Orient
- 1st Serbian Army
- 2nd Serbian Army
- 3rd Serbian Army
- British Salonika Army
- National Defence Army
- 35th Italian division
Italian XVI Corps
- 550,000 men
- 18,000 men
- 1,217 artillery pieces
- 2,710 machine guns
- 30 aeroplanes
- Unknown
- 29,000 men (Dec 1916 – May 1917), afterwards 4,300 (until May 1918).
- 717,000 men
- 2,609 artillery pieces
- 2,682 machine guns
- 6,434 automatic rifles
- 200 aeroplanes
- 200,000 casualties
Unknown
- 6,700 killed, 15,600 missing and 16,200 wounded
- 40,000 casualties
- 27,000 casualties
- 26,207 casualties
- 10,538 casualties
- Unknown
The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria. The expedition came too late and with insufficient force to prevent the fall of Serbia and was complicated by the internal political crisis in Greece (the National Schism). Eventually, a stable front was established, running from the AlbanianAdriatic coast to the Struma River, pitting a multinational Allied force against the Bulgarian army, which was at various times bolstered with smaller units from the other Central Powers. The Macedonian front remained stable, despite local actions, until the Allied offensive in September 1918 resulted in Bulgaria capitulating and the liberation of Serbia.