Battle of Plovdiv (1878)
date | January 17, 1878 |
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place |
Plovdiv , Ottoman Empire , today Bulgaria |
output | Outstanding victory for the Russians |
Territorial changes | South Bulgaria |
consequences | Russian breakthrough to Istanbul |
Peace treaty | Peace of San Stefano |
Parties to the conflict | |
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Commander | |
Troop strength | |
12,000 | 6000 |
losses | |
1,300 dead or wounded |
3,000 dead and 2,000 prisoners |
Zimnicea - Nikopol - 1st Shipka Pass - Elena - 2nd Shipka Pass - Pleven - Lovech - 3rd Shipka Pass - Kızıl Tepe - Alaja - Gorni-Dubnik - Kars - Tashkesen - 4th Shipka Pass - Plovdiv
The Battle of Plovdiv (Philippopel) ( Turkish Filibe Muharebesi ) was one of the last battles in the Russo-Ottoman War (1877-1878) .
After the destruction of the Ottoman army in the 4th Battle of the Shipka Pass, General Gurko and his troops advanced to southern Bulgaria. The last Ottoman fortress on the way to the Ottoman capital Istanbul was Plovdiv with the commander Suleyman Pasha . On January 17, 1878, a squadron of Russian dragoons under Captain Alexander Burago stormed the city. The resistance was strong, but the Russians outnumbered them. In order to prevent the further Russian advance and a conquest of Istanbul, the major European powers intervened, above all England. The Russian advance only stopped in the suburb of Yeşilköy .
The Peace of San Stefano followed . After the peace agreement, the new Russian Governor General Alexander Michailowitsch Dondukow-Korsakow of the Principality of Bulgaria made Plovdiv his capital.
See also
Individual evidence
- Compton's Home Library: Battles of the World CD-ROM
- ^ FV Greene, The Russian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877–1878 , Read Books, 2008, p. 359
- ^ Norman Tobias, The International Military Encyclopedia , Academic International Press, 2004, p. 19th
- ^ Stanley Sandler, Ground Warfare: An International Encyclopedia , ABC-CLIO, 2002, p. 690.
Coordinates: 42 ° 0 ' N , 24 ° 0' E