Battle of Niš (1915)

Battle of Niš (1915)
	Part of the Serbian Campaign of the Balkans Theatre (World War I)
	; Bulgarians taking the fort of Niš (illustration by Ernst Zimmer, 1915)
Date	4–5 November 1915
Location	Niš, Kingdom of Serbia, today Serbia43°19′15″N 21°53′45″E / 43.32083°N 21.89583°E
Result	Decisive Bulgarian victory
Belligerents
Bulgaria	Serbia
Commanders and leaders
Kliment Boyadzhiev;	Stepa Stepanović;
Units involved
Bulgarian First Army 9th Pleven Infantry Division; ;	Serbian Second Army;
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown killed and wounded ; 5,000 captured

The Battle of Niš was a military engagement between the army of the Kingdom of Bulgaria with support from the German Empire against the Kingdom of Serbia in November 1915, during the Central Powers Morava Offensive of World War I. City of Niš, serving as a capital of Serbia after the fall of Belgrade, was captured between 4 and 5 November 1915 by the forces of 9th Pleven Division of Bulgarian First Army. The fall of Niš had a huge psychological impact on both of fighting sides: Serbians were forced to continue in their Great Retreat, for Central Powers the victory ment removing the last obstacle for operating the Berlin–Baghdad railway, the shortest railway connection between Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.