✦ History

Part of First Balkan War

Battle of Kumanovo

October 23–24, 1912 · Battle of Kumanovo

Result Serbian victory

The Serbian First Army beat the Ottoman Vardar Army in northern Macedonia.

On the map Contemporaries

Balkan League

Ottoman Empire

Serbia
Ottoman Empire
Alexander I of Yugoslavia military commander Radomir Putnik military commander Stepa Stepanović military commander
Zeki Kolaç military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
103,000
Casualties
5,000
Guns
180
Strength
65,000
Casualties
4,500
Killed
1,200
Wounded
3,000
Captured
327
Guns
164
Guns lost
98

Units

First Army (Serbia) Second Army (Serbia) Third Army (Serbia)
Vardar Army VII Corps (Ottoman Empire)