Battle of Kraków (1914)
| Battle of Kraków | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front during World War I | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Austria-Hungary German Empire | Russian Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf Remus von Woyrsch Viktor Dankl von Krasnik Joseph Ferdinand Svetozar Boroević |
Nikolai Ivanov Platon Lechitsky Aleksei Evert Radko Dimitriev Alexei Brusilov | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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3rd army 4th army 1st Army Landwehr Corps |
3rd Army 9th army 4th army 8th army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 397,237 | 363,362 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| >121,000 | 121,000 | ||||||||
The Battle of Krakow (Russian: Краковская Битва, romanized: Krakovskaya Bitwa); (German: Krakauer Schlacht) took place on the Eastern Front during World War I from November 16 to November 28, 1914. In western Galicia, the 9th and 3rd Russian armies advanced to the Dunac and pushed back the 4th Austro-Hungarian army between Krakow and the northern slopes of the Beskids. A counterattack by retreating Austro-Hungarian troops in the northern section of the Vistula was repulsed by the Russians, and then came to a standstill. As a result of the unsuccessful attacks of the 9th German Army in the decisive Battle of Lodz, the battles for Krakow were interrupted by both sides after two weeks of fighting. At the end of November, the chief of the General Staff of Austria-Hungary, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, hastily began to regroup for a new counteroffensive at Limanova-Lapanov to stop the Russian breakthrough in northern Hungary.