Second Battle of Çatalca

Second Battle of Çatalca
Part of First Balkan War
Date 3 February – 3 April 1913 Location Çatalca Line 41°08′30″N 28°27′47″E / 41.14167°N 28.46306°E / 41.14167; 28.46306 Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Bulgaria	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Radko Dimitriev	Nazim Pasha

The Second Battle of Çatalca fought between 3 February 1913 and 3 April 1913 was a major "continuous skirmish" of the First Balkan War.

Background

The Bulgarian advance at the beginning of the First Balkan War stalled at the Ottoman fortifications at Çatalca in November 1912 at the First Battle of Çatalca. A two-month ceasefire (armistice) was agreed to on 3 December [O.S. 20 November] 1912 to allow for peace talks to proceed in London. The talks there stalled when on 23 January [O.S. 10 January] 1913 an Ottoman coup d'état returned Unionists to power, with their non-negotiable stance on retaining Edirne.^[1][2] Hostilities resumed upon expiration of the armistice, on 3 February [O.S. 21 January] 1913, and the Second Battle of Çatalca began.^[1]

Battle

The battle consisted of a series of thrusts and counter-thrusts by both the Ottomans and the

The Ottomans held the "Çatalca Line", but failed to advance. The loss of Edirne ended the major Ottoman objection to peace and the Treaty of London on 10 June 1913 codified the Ottoman loss of territory.^[1]

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