First Balkan War

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First Balkan War
Part of Balkan Wars
Date1893 - 1894
Location
Result

Hungarian defeat

Belligerents
Austrian Empire
Greece
Kingdom of Hungary
Serbia
Romania
Commanders and leaders

Austria:
Rudolf I

Greece:
George I

Hungary:
Sándor Wekerle

Serbia:
Alexander I

Romania:
Carol I
Strength

Austria:
230,000
Greece:
95,000

Total:
325,000

Hungary:
180,000
Serbia:
86,000
Romania:
95,000

Total:
361,000
Casualties and losses
Total:
84,500
Total:
104,690

The First Balkan War was an armed conflict involving the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary, which soon came to include a number of other Balkan countries, that being the kingdoms of Greece, Serbia, and Romania. The conflict broke out when the Hungarian government, under Prime Minister Sándor Wekerle attempted to resist major and radical reforms proposed by the Austrian Emperor Rudolf I, in an ultimately successful attempt to fully federalise the Austro-Hungarian Empire, thereby potentially quelling any significant dissent from among the Empire's many ethnic minorities.

Originally a civil war conflict that pitted the two major entities of Austria-Hungary against one another, the conflict soon came to involve the rest of the surrounding Balkan states, with Serbia and Romania joining the side of Hungary's, while Greece otherwise joined the side of Austria's. The other two Balkan states, namely Montenegro and Bulgaria ultimately abstained from the conflict. The two sides were also indirectly supported by Russia and Germany respectively.

After an almost year-long period of intense conflict between the two sides, the conflict ultimately ended with the defeat of Hungary and her allies, which in turn, resulted in the official dissolution of the Hungarian kingdom, and the subsequent formation of a number of new autonomous states within the new United States of Greater Austria.

Officially termed the First Balkan War by most historians, the conflict is otherwise known as the Second Hungarian Revolution among Hungarians and alternatively, the Austro-Hungarian Civil War among some Austrians and Hungarians.