battle, interwar and Second World War

Battle of Olympus

Name: Battle of Olympus
Location: Mount Olympus, Greece

Battle of Olympus was a battle fought in 1941 at Mount Olympus, in what is now Greece. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Mount Olympus. It was part of Battle of Greece. The recorded result: German victory.

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Fought1941

WhereMount Olympus, Greece40.083N, 22.350E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeGerman victory

BelligerentsAxis: Nazi GermanyagainstAllies: United Kingdom; Australia; Dominion of New Zealand

Part ofBattle of Greece1941

Where it sits in Battle of Greece

6 placed engagements of Battle of Greece in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1941 (year precision) to 1941
Place	Mount Olympus, Greece 40.083N, 22.350E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Strength	Germany: 2nd Panzer Division; 5th Mountain Division; 100+ tanks	New Zealand: 5th Infantry Brigade; 28th (Māori) Battalion; 21st Battalion; 22nd Battalion; 23rd Battalion; Australia: 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion; Unknown number of artillery
Casualties and losses	Germany: Unknown number of men killed or wounded; 12 trucks; 2 tanks	New Zealand: 40 men killed; 50 wounded; 130 captured; 9 artillery; 10 Bren gun carriers; 20 trucks
Commanders	Rudolf Veiel Julius Ringel	Henry Maitland Wilson Ian Ross Campbell James Hargest Neil Lloyd Macky Leslie Andrew George Dittmer

Placed at Mount Olympus; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Pydna 168 BC, 21 km NE
Battle of Sarantaporos 1943, 25 km W
Battle of Sarantaporo 1912, 26 km W
Battle of Tempe Gorge 1941, 29 km SE
Battle of Pydna 148 BC, 37 km NE

In the same war

Before: Battle of Kleisoura Pass 13 April 1941
After: Battle of Lake Kastoria 1941
All 6 engagements of Battle of Greece

Elsewhere in 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor United States
Siege of Leningrad Soviet Union
Battle of Moscow Soviet Union
Battle of Crete Greece
Battle of Kiev Ukraine

Battle of Olympus is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 493 in present-day Greece.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q110010689, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Olympus (1941), revision 1370452174, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.