First Serbian–Ottoman War
| First Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–1877) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878), Great Eastern Crisis | |||||||||
Battle of Moravac | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Serbia | Ottoman Empire | ||||||||
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 130,000 with 160 guns | 153,000 with 192 guns | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 6,000 killed, 9,500 wounded | 1,000+ killed, 6,000+ wounded | ||||||||
The First Serbian–Ottoman War (Serbian: Први српско-турски рат, romanized: Prvi srpsko-turski rat), was a military conflict fought by the Principality of Serbia against the Ottoman Empire. Serbia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 30 June 1876, during the Herzegovina Uprising. A Serbian south- and westward offensive was repulsed by Ottoman troops after just three weeks of fighting, upon which Turkey then invaded Serbia proper. Eastern Serbia was quickly occupied, but on the southern front the Serbian army successfully stopped the Ottoman advance, defending the fortified positions around Aleksinac for more than two months.
The Russian Empire brokered a ceasefire in autumn of 1876 by threatening military intervention, and the European Great Powers then organized the Constantinople Conference to settle the war and wider issues in the Balkans. Peace was signed on 28 February 1877 on the basis of status quo ante bellum.