ИТАЛИЈАНСКА ВОЈСКА У ПРОБОЈУ СОЛУНСКОГ ФРОНТА
THE ITALIAN ARMY IN THE SALONIKA FRONT OFFENSIVE

Summary/Abstract: Deployed to the Salonika Front from August 10, 1916, the 35th Italian Division was one of the participants in the offensive on September 15, 1918. On the order of the Supreme Commander of the Allied armies on the Salonika Front issued August 31, 1917 the [Italian] Division, which was deployed on the left side of the Serbian Army on the heights of the Selečka Planina Mountain opposite Prilep and directly facing the 11th German Army, was given the responsibility of guarding the left flank of the Serbian Army during the offensive. Simulating an attack a day earlier, with continuous assaults it contained the German forces with the goal of neither allowing their deployment and concentration toward the Serbian Army in the offensive and advance, nor allowing them to go behind their backs. With continuous artillery and infantry attacks from September 10 to 21, the Italian forces restrained the 11th German Army which had deployed their groups of reserves from Prilep against the Italians. From September 21 the Italian Army advanced with the Serbian-French forces to Prilep so that just before the capture of the city, on the order of the Allied Command, it was redirected to the west to bisect the road used by the Bulgarian Army retreating through the massif of the Baba Mountain and Demir Hisar. After exhausting battles, on October 3, 1918 at 10:00 a.m. in Sop, west of Kruševo in the direction of Kičevo, the Bulgarian mixed “Composite” Division surrendered to General Orlando Freri, Commander of the “Cagliari” Brigade.

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