battle, First World War

Battle of the Southern Carpathians

Name: Battle of the Southern Carpathians
Location: Romania

Battle of the Southern Carpathians was a battle fought in 1916 in what is now Romania. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at its recorded location. The recorded result: Romanian strategic victory.

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Fought1916

WhereRomania45.600N, 24.730E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeRomanian strategic victory

BelligerentsKingdom of RomaniaagainstGerman Empire; Austria-Hungary

Record

Date	1916 (year precision)
Place	Romania 45.600N, 24.730E
Kind	Battle, First World War
Casualties and losses	Unknown	1,600+ killed; 1,900+ captured; 8 guns and two howitzer batteries captured; 14 machine guns captured
Commanders	Ioan Culcer Ion Dragalina Nicolae Petala Alexandru Averescu Eremia Grigorescu	Erich von Falkenhayn

Placed at its recorded location; 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

Siege of Fogaras 1541, 33 km NE
Battle of the Olt Valley 1916, 33 km W
Battle of Sellenberk 1599, 47 km NW
Battle of Romania 1944, 49 km NE
Second Battle of Nagyszeben date unknown, 50 km NW

Elsewhere in 1916

Battle of the Southern Carpathians is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 124 in present-day Romania.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q85745974, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of the Southern Carpathians, revision 1370602376, 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.