First Serbian–Ottoman War
A conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Principality of Serbia from 1876 to 1877 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First Serbian–Ottoman War (Serbian: Први српско-турски рат, romanized: Prvi srpsko-turski rat), was a military conflict fought by the Principality of Serbia and the Principality of Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire.
First Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–1877) | |||||||
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Part of the Great Eastern Crisis | |||||||
Battle of Moravac | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
130,000 with 160 guns[2] | 153,000 with 192 guns[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
6,000 killed, 9,500 wounded[3] |
1,000+ killed,[4][5] 6,000+ wounded[4][6] |
Serbia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 30 June 1876. A Serbian offensive to the South and the West was repulsed by Ottoman troops after just three weeks of fighting, upon which Turkey then invaded Serbia proper. Eastern Serbia was quickly occupied, but on the southern front the Serbian army successfully stopped the Ottoman advance, defending the fortified positions around Aleksinac for more than two months.[7][4][8]
The Russian Empire brokered a ceasefire in autumn of 1876 by threatening military intervention, and the European Great Powers then organized the Constantinople Conference to settle the war and wider issues in the Balkans. Peace was signed on 28 February 1877 on the basis of status quo ante bellum.[9][10]