✦ History

Part of First Balkan War

Battle of Kirk Kilisse

October 22–24, 1912 · Battle of Kirk Kilisse

Result Bulgarian victory

The Bulgarian armies routed the Ottoman Eastern Army in eastern Thrace.

On the map Contemporaries

Balkan League

Ottoman Empire

Bulgaria
Ottoman Empire
Radko Dimitriev military commander Vasil Kutinchev military commander
Abdullah Kölemen military commander Mahmud Muhtar Paşa military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
153,745
Casualties
5,745
Killed
887
Wounded
4,034
Missing
824
Strength
98,326
Captured
2,000–3,000
Guns captured
58

Units

Bulgarian Third Army (1912–1913) First Army (Bulgaria) Third Army (Bulgaria)
Eastern Army (Ottoman Empire)