Capture of Bizani Fortress

Date: March 6, 1913 • Location: Koutselió, Greece

First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.

The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame the initially numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies, achieving rapid success.