Fall of Belgrade (1915)

Fall of Belgrade (1915)
Part of the Serbian Campaign of the Balkans Theatre of World War I
Austro-Hungarian troops cross the Danube covered by fire from the Danube monitors (illustration by W. Stöwer, 1915)
Date 5–16 October 1915 Location Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, today Serbia 44°49′04″N 20°27′25″E / 44.81778°N 20.45694°E / 44.81778; 20.45694 Result Decisive Central Powers victory
Belligerents
Serbia	Austria-Hungary  German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Mihailo Živković Dragutin Gavrilović	Alfred Krauss August von Mackensen
Units involved
2nd Army 3rd Army Timok Army	5th Army German 11th Army

The Fall of Belgrade (Serbian Cyrillic: Пад Београда, ‹See Tfd›German: Der Fall von Belgrad) was a military engagement between the joint armies of Austria-Hungary and German Empire against Serbia in October 1915, during the Serbian Campaign of 1915 of World War I. After the fighting between 5 and 16 October 1915 Belgrade was finally occupied by Austro-Hungarian Third Army and German Eleventh Army, while successfully establishing two bridgeheads to serve as base for further operations of the Central Powers armies in the Balkans Theatre.^[1]