The Macedonian front, also called the Salonika front, was a theatre of the First World War in northern Greece and southern Serbia. It opened when British and French troops landed at Salonika in October 1915 to help Serbia, which was being invaded by Bulgaria, Germany and Austria-Hungary, and the Serbian army was later evacuated and reorganised there. For almost three years the Allied Army of the Orient, made up of French, British, Serbian, Italian, Greek and Russian units, faced Bulgarian and German forces along a stable line, with many men falling ill with malaria. In September 1918 a French-led offensive broke through at Dobro Pole, and Bulgaria signed an armistice at the end of the month.
Before and after
- 29 August 1915Birth of Ingrid Bergman
- from 25 September 1915 to 14 October 1915Battle of Loos
- October 1915Publication of The Metamorphosis
- 17 October 1915Birth of Arthur Miller
- from 21 October 1915 to 30 September 1918Macedonian Front
- from 21 November 1915 to 30 August 1916Shackleton's Endurance is crushed by the ice
- from 22 November 1915 to 25 November 1915Battle of Ctesiphon
- 25 November 1915Birth of Augusto Pinochet
- 12 December 1915Birth of Frank Sinatra
More in Wars, politics & history
- from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918World War I
- 16 May 1916Sykes–Picot Agreement
- from February 1919 to March 1921Polish–Soviet War
- 4 June 1920Treaty of Trianon
- from 1933 to 1945The Holocaust
- from 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945World War II
The era
This moment belongs to the Modern era (1914 CE to 1945 CE), world wars and a changing world. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.