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.
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.
A commander of the Serbian 2nd Army, general
Stepa Stepanović
Stepan "Stepa" Stepanović ( sr-cyr, Степан Степа Степановић, ; – 29 April 1929) was a Serbian military commander who fought in the Serbo-Turkish War, the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the First Balkan War, the Second Balk ...
suggested on 8 July that Pirot was to be evacuated.
However, when the Romanian advance threatened the Bulgarian 1st Army on the evening the same day, the Bulgarian command ordered for withdrawal.
[ Due to the Serbian victory at Bregalnica, the Bulgarians were forced to give up aspirations in southeastern Serbia.]
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Conflicts in 1913
1913 in Bulgaria
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Battles of the Second Balkan War
July 1913 events
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