| Battle of Pirot | |||||||
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| Part of theSecond Balkan War | |||||||
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TheBattle of Pirot were engagements between the Bulgarian and Serbian armies in the surroundings ofPirot near the Serbian–Bulgarian border between 6 and 8 July 1913.[1]
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.[2] A commander of the Serbian 2nd Army, generalStepa Stepanović suggested on 8 July that Pirot was to be evacuated.[3] However, when the Romanian advance threatened the Bulgarian 1st Army on the evening the same day, the Bulgarian command ordered for withdrawal.[3] Due to the Serbian victoryat Bregalnica, the Bulgarians were forced to give up aspirations in southeastern Serbia.[4]