Conflict: | Battle of Pirot |
Partof: | the Second Balkan War |
Date: | 6–8 July 1913 |
Place: | Near Pirot, Serbia |
Result: | Serbian victory |
Commander1: | unknown |
Commander2: | Stepa Stepanović |
Units1: | |
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The Battle of Pirot were engagements between the Bulgarian and Serbian armies in the surroundings of Pirot near the Serbian–Bulgarian border between 6 and 8 July 1913.[1]
On the front between the Bulgarian 3rd Army (Slivnica-Trn-Caribrod) and Serbian 2nd Army (Sofia-Pirot-Niš), the main fighting took place outside Pirot on 6 and 7 July.[2] A commander of the Serbian 2nd Army, general Stepa Stepanović suggested on 8 July that Pirot was to be evacuated.[3] However, when the Romanian advance threatened the Bulgarian 1st Army on the evening the same day, the Bulgarian command ordered for withdrawal.[3] Due to the Serbian victory at Bregalnica, the Bulgarians were forced to give up aspirations in southeastern Serbia.[4]