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Battle of Lozengrad
Part of First Balkan War
Date 24 October 1912 Location Lozengrad, Turkey Result Decisive Bulgarian victory
Belligerents
Bulgaria	Ottoman Empire
Commanders
General Radko Dimitriev General Ivan Fichev	Mahmud Muhtar Pasha Abdullah Pasha
Strength
Unknown	90,000 [1]
Casualties and losses
880 killed, 3000 wounded	Heavy, 58 cannons captured, 2 airplanes captured

v • d • e First Balkan War Sarantaporo - Giannitsa - Kumanovo - Kirk Kilisse - Pente Pigadia - Prilep - Lule-Burgas - Vevi - Bitola - Kaliakra - Elli - Bulair - Şarköy - Adrianople - Lemnos - Bizani - Siege of Shkoder

The Battle of Lozengrad was part of the First Balkan War between the armies of Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. It took place on 24 October 1912, when the Bulgarian army defeated an Ottoman army in Eastern Thrace.

The initial clashes were around several villages to the north of the town. The Bulgarian attacks were irresistible and the Turks were forced to retreat. On 10 October an enemy army threatened to split 1st and 3th Bulgarian armies but it was quickly stopped by charge by 1st Sofian and 2nd Preslav brigades. After bloody fights along the whole town the enemy began to pull back and on the next morning the Bulgarians liberated Lozengrad.

After the victory, the French minister of war Alexandre Millerand stated that the Bulgarian Army was the best in Europe and that he would prefer 100,000 Bulgarians for allies than any other European army. ^[2]

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