Kosovo Operation (1944)

Kosovo Operation
	Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
	; Bulgarian armored brigade in November 1944 in Podujevo
Date	15 October – 22 November 1944
Location	Kosovo, Albanian Kingdom
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
Bulgaria; Yugoslav Partisans; Albanian Partisans	Germany; Albania; Government of National Salvation;
Commanders and leaders
Kiril Stanchev; Mile Čalović; Tomica Popović; Enver Hoxha;	Alexander Löhr; August Schmidhuber; Milan Nedić; Midhat Frashëri; Prenk Pervizi;
Units involved
2nd Bulgarian Army 2nd Division; 4th Division; 6th Division; 9th Division; 12th Division; ; National Liberation Army 24th Serbian Division; 46th Serbian Division; 1st Kos-Met Brigade; 2nd Kos-Met Brigade; 3rd Kos-Met Brigade; 4th Kos-Met Brigade; 5th Kos-Met Brigade; ; National Liberation Movement 3rd Brigade; 5th Brigade; ;	Army Group E; Kampfgruppe Langer; Kampfgruppe Bredow; Kampfgruppe Skanderbeg; Balli Kombëtar; Serbian State Guard;

The Kosovo Operation was a major strategic military offensive launched between 15 October and 22 November 1944 by the Bulgarian 2nd Army, with the assistance of the Yugoslav Partisans and Albanian Partisans, against German forces and local collaborationist auxiliaries in Kosovo.

Although the Bulgarian army was the main force which drove the Germans out of the area, subsequent Yugoslav historiography has downplayed its role for political reasons. Accounts of these events in post-war Yugoslav literature give the impression that the Germans were driven out by the communist Partisans who liberated the area. There was some fighting by the Yugoslav Partisans, but their actions were insignificant compared with Bulgarian military activity.