Yanya Corps

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Yanya Corps
Yanya Kolordusu
Active1912–
Country Ottoman Empire
Allegiance Western Army
Size Corps
Garrison/HQYanya (present day: Ioannina)
Patron Sultans of the Ottoman Empire
Commanders
Notable
commanders		 Mirliva Esad Pasha

The Yanya Corps or Independent Yanya Corps of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish : Yanya Kolordusu) was one of the major formations under the command of the Ottoman Western Army. It was formed in Yanya (present-day Ioannina) area during the First Balkan War. Its commander was Esat Pasha. It fought the battles of Gribovo and Pente Pigadia against the Greek Army of Epirus. Pushed back to the Yanya Fortified Area, it held out against two Greek assaults but was eventually defeated and capitulated at the Battle of Bizani in 4–6 March 1913[ citation needed ].

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Balkan wars

Order of battle, 19 October 1912

On 19 October 1912, the corps was structured as follows: [1]

Yanya Corps HQ (commander: Esad Pasha, chief of staff: Binbaşı Ali Fuad Bey, later: Kaymakam Turgut Bey)

Mehmet Esat Bülkat Ottoman general

Mehmed Esad Pasha, known as Mehmet Esat Bülkat after the 1934 Surname Law, was an Ottoman general active during the First Balkan War, where he led the Yanya Corps, and in World War I, where he was the senior Ottoman commander in the Dardanelles Campaign.

Ali Fuat Cebesoy Turkish politician and general

Ali Fuat Cebesoy was a Turkish army officer and politician.

The 23rd Division was a formation of the VIII Corps of the Ottoman Army based in Homs. It had been intended that its manpower would be raised from locally recruited Syrians and Arabs.

Wehib Pasha Ottoman general

Wehib Pasha also known as Vehip Pasha, Mehmed Wehib Pasha, Mehmet Vehip Pasha, was a general in the Ottoman Army. He fought in the Balkan Wars and in several theatres of World War I. In his later years, he acted as a military advisor to the Ethiopian army in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Mehmet Emin Koral Turkish general

Mehmet Emin Koral was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.

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Faik Pasha Ottoman military personnel of World War I

Faik Pasha, also known as Ahmed Faik or Sulejmani Faik from his Albanian origin, was a general of the Ottoman Army, and the grandmaster of Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire.

Sources

  1. ↑ Edward J. Erickson, Defeat in Detail, The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913, Westport, Praeger, 2003, p. 170.


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