Battle of Limanowa

December 1–13, 1914

Result Central Powers victory

Austro-Hungarian and German forces defeated a Russian army near Limanowa, south-east of Kraków, halting the Russian drive toward the city. It ended the immediate threat to Kraków.

Contemporaries

Central Powers

Allies

Austria-Hungary

German Empire

Russian Empire

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf military commander

Svetozar Boroević military commander

Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany military commander

Radko Dimitriev military commander

Nikolay Ivanov military commander

Aleksey Brusilov military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 272,000
Casualties: 106,472
Guns: 1,800

Strength: 282,736
Casualties: 110,000–144,648
Guns: 1,493

Units

3rd Army (Austria-Hungary) 4th Army (Austria-Hungary) 47th Reserve Division

8th Army (Russian Empire) Russian 3rd Army (1914–1918)