Capture of Korytsa

Part of the First Balkan War

Date	December 20, 1912
Location	Korytsa/Korce
Result	Greek victory, fall of Korca

Belligerents

Greece

Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders

Crown Prince Constantine

Djavit Pasha

Strength

24,000 troops

First Balkan War

Sarantaporo Kardzhali Pente Pigadia Sorovich Kumanovo Kirk Kilisse Scutari Lule Burgas Yenidje Adrianople Prilep Himara Monastir Çatalca Kaliakra Merhamli Elli Korytsa Lemnos Bulair Şarköy Bizani

The Capture of Korytsa or Korca by the Greek armed forces, happened at 20 December 1912, at the first Balkan War.

Capture

The Balkan Wars, a conflict between Balkan countries against the Ottoman Empire broke at July 1912. While the Balkan allies were victorious, and the Hellenic Army liberated Thessaloniki continue to march in direction northwest to Kastoria and then Korytsa.

The Epirus front was still active and the Ottoman forces under Djavid Pasha placed 24,000 Ottoman troops in Korytsa in order to protect the northeast of Ioannina, the urban center of the region of Epirus. On December 20, 1912, 3 days after peace negotiatons started^[1], the Greek forces pushed the Ottomans out of Korytsa.^[2]

This gave a significant advange to the Greek forces in order to conrtol the entire area and Ioannina, which happened with the Battle of Bizani in March 1913.

References

^ Greece at the Paris Peace Conference (1919). page 23.
^ The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War p. 83