Battle of Kirk Kilisse

Battle of Kirk Kilise
Part of the First Balkan War
Date22–24 October 1912
Location
Kırk Kilise District, Adrianople Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
(now Kırklareli, Turkey)
41°44′05″N 27°13′31″E / 41.73472°N 27.22528°E / 41.73472; 27.22528
Result Bulgarian victory
Belligerents
Bulgaria Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Radko Dimitriev
Ivan Fichev		 Mahmud Muhtar Pasha (WIA)
Abdullah Pasha
Strength
153,745 men 98,326 men
Casualties and losses
887 killed, 4,034 wounded and 824 missing 1,500 killed and wounded,
2,000–3,000 prisoners
58 artillery captured

The Battle of Kirk Kilisse or Battle of Kirklareli or Battle of Lozengrad was part of the First Balkan War between the armies of Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. It took place on 24 October 1912, when the Bulgarian army defeated an Ottoman army in Eastern Thrace and occupied Kırklareli.

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