Serbia in World War One ( Srbija u Prvom svetskom ratu )

Documentary about Serbian army during WWI
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4F8A8D092681DE74

A brief history of WWI Serbian battles

The Serbian army, coming up from the south of the country, met the Austrian army at the Battle of Cer on 12 August.
The Serbians occupied defensive positions against the Austrians. The first attack came on August 16, between parts of the 21st AustroHungarian division and parts of the Serbian Combined division. In harsh night-time fighting, the battle ebbed and flowed, until Stepa Stepanovic rallied the Serbian line. Three days later the Austrians retreated across the Danube, having suffered 21,000 casualties as against 16,000 Serbian. This marked the first major Allied victory of the war. The Austrians had not achieved their main goal of eliminating Serbia, and it became increasingly likely that Germany would have to maintain forces on two fronts

The Battle of Cer (August 12-24. 1914) was one of the most glorious in the military history of Serbian people. Victory achieved by the Serbian Army in this battle was the first allied victory in the First World War (1914-1918). In the crucial part of the operation, on the Mt. Cer, Austro-Hungarian Fifth Army was defeated and pushed back across River Drina.

The Battle of Drina (September 6. - November 11. 1914) was the most difficult battle waged by the Serbian Army in WWI, particularly battles around middle flow of River Drina, battles of Gucevo and Mackov Kamen. It also stopped the second offensive of Austro-Hungarian Army on Serbia.

The Battle of Kolubara (November 16. - December 15. 1914) and the victory of the Serbian Army contributed to Serbian respect among the allies. In the final phase of the battle, in only 13 days, the Serbian Army managed to expel the enemy from the country and re-establish the fronts on Drina and Sava rivers.

The Battle near Mojkovac (January 6-7. 1916), in which Montenegrin Sandzak Army successfully defended itself against Austro-Hungarin offensive, significantly alleviated the operations of the Serbian Army, enabling it to withdraw its troops trough Montenegro towards Albania.

Albanian Golgotha - Retreat of the Serbian Army (November 1915 - January 1916), also known as "Serbian Golgotha through Albanian gorges" was carried out in the conditions of strong frost, hunger, fatigue, illness and almost every day battles against Bulgarians, Austria-Hungary and Albanians. Some 100,000 soldiers and refugees lost their lives during this legendary march-maneuver of the Serbian Army, which was compared by various historians with Napoleon's and Suvorovs crossing the Alps.

Thessaloniki front (1916-1918) encompasses battles waged by the Entente forces against Central forces on the territory from the Orfan Bay, across Greece and Albania, to the Ionian Sea. In September 1916, the Serbian Army took part in the allied offensive, occupying Kajmakcalan after fierce struggle against Bulgarian forces.

Breakthrough of the Thessaloniki front and allied offensive in autumn 1918, in which the Serbian Army played a crucial role, belong to the most successful operations of the WW I.

Its participation in the WW I Serbia paid with more than million people (some 22% of the population, 58% of male population) and Montenegro lost around 50,000 people (1/8 of the entire population). From 707.000 mobilized men during the war, only less than 130.000 returned home at the end of the war.

Nikola Tesla
"I admire the wonderful energy and heroism of our (Serbian) army, always feeling proud that I'm springing from agricultural, knightly nation, which deserved the honor and respect of the whole World in its permanent battle for its ideals and European culture."

Србија у првом светском рату

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[CCCPSovietSoldier]

Serbian brothers !

Respect from Russia !

[101Serbian]

takodje i moj pradeda i njegov brat...su bili u prvom svetskom ratu...ali su oboje poginuli isti dan 1914 godine na ceru!u mojoj lozi njihova imena nikada nece biti zaboravljena....slava im,kao i ostalim srpskin junacima...

[chaosknight95]

@CoolKidX85 yugoslavia is serbia serbs made yugoslavia after ww1 serbs liberated other south slavs from austro hungary ... serbs made their countries but america germany and england destroyed it all by backing up the separatists.. and dont talk about brotherhood and unity we tied being brothers but the love they gave us back was 600 000 serbs killed in jasenovac .. YES OUR BROTHERS ! also you cant be a brother with a guy that sold his county

[CoolKidX85]

@chaosknight95 You obviously dont know your history. Tho we did lost some wars againt England, because England is a super power while we're a tiny country, we won 2 out of 4 wars against England because we rule at sea. Besides that we got limited support from England in the Spanish war. Now back to YOUR country. I almost forgot that your country is so messed up you couldnt even keep united with your slav brothers. Ever heard of unity and brotherhood? I had respect for yugoslavia but I not Serbia

[MladenKk]

На Колубари и Церу ми погинули чукунђед Петко Костић, и брат му Миладин Костић, а трећи од браће, Вуле Костић, прошао све голготе и вратио се у родни ужички крај. Слава им!

[shovel20]

Respect!

[chaosknight95]

@CoolKidX85 you cant compare colonial territories with territories of mother country ..only thing you do with colony is steal their wealth ..and of course you conquer whole indonesia when they lived in tribes and didnt even had guns.. also you lost all of your territories super fast.. and we won 4wars against turkey so i dont see the point.. we did it alone you had help because you werent the only spain was fighting.. english won all wars against you .. your state was made in 16 century so stfu

[CoolKidX85]

@chaosknight95 And unlike you angry serbs who dont like anything that is diffrent from their selves we managed to get other religions together(talking about jews who fled Europe against anti Jew laws). There was peace between Catholics and Protestants here. We had one of the earliest modern republics when we came out of the spanish war. We're a small country but still we were VERY important in history. Our fleet in the East Indies was one of the biggest. The english were jealous of us!

[CoolKidX85]

@chaosknight95 haha its hilarious how ignorant you are. First off our colonial empire was HUGE, bigger than the whole balkans alltogether. We got whole Indonesia! Also, we got ruled by the Spanish, but unlike you pussy serbs we actually managed to break away as a whole, we won a war against spain(which was way bigger than modern day spain, the spanish had whole S america, Mexico, Holy Roman Empire, parts of Italy). And still we won. We also tolerated other religions, one of the reasons we grew.

[chaosknight95]

@CoolKidX85 and serbia is 1000 years older than your fat ass country that was once rich because you stole money from other parts of the world... and where do you live? under sea level ? oh wait in 100 years there will be no netherlands .. what pity :/ ..

[chaosknight95]

@CoolKidX85 hahaha you are important for what ?? you were rulled by germans and spain empire your colonial empire had few islands in first years because you had ships to sail to every corner of the world you lost it all in a sec because you dont have a real army to defend it ... we saved europe from islam in every christian-turkish war serbs have big part in victory.. also thanks to the serb Nikola Tesla you can today sit in your house on computer watch TV have lights and phone so stfu

[CoolKidX85]

@SuperSerbSoundSystem Guardian dogs? Oh so how come you got annexed by the turks for hundred of years?