FIRST BALKAN WAR

Before Montenegro was the first to participate in the Balkan War on 9 October, 1912, but the official start of the war on the 18 October 1912, when the armies of Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece attacked Turkey. The Serbian army after the three day war at Kumanovo, took over Skopje without fighting, and continued with their victories in other places. Bigger battles with the Turk's occurred at Babuna, then at Bakarno Gumno and through Kosovo, the Serbian army spread to the Adriatic coast. During October, it also occupied West Macedonia and Albania.
The Bulgarian army occupied East Macedonia up to the river Mesta, and the shores of the Aegean Sea (Egejsko More), east of Solun (Thessaloniki today). The Greek army freed Epir and the island of Crete, than occupied Aegean Macedonia.
After these wars, Macedonia was divided into three parts amongst Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria.

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