The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire in First War World
The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire in First War World

Summary/Abstract: This paper primarily deals with the military cooperation between the Monarchy and Turkey, highlighting the fate of the forces involved in the siege of the Dardanelles, and the personages of the locally famous artillerymenThis research is done on gained information of the Hungarian gunners of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy during the First World War: participants defending the Dardanelles and the Sinai Peninsula.I have looked the accessible information up in Hungarian and from Archiv Vienna, Austria.During the First World War, from the fall of 1914, when the Turkish Empire declared a war on Russia, who had attacked Ottoman ports in the Black Sea without any declaration of war, then England and France also entered into war against the Turks, the political alliance between the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire was created, which was also their common fate, until the end of the war. First the German Empire, and later, from 1915, Bulgaria also participated in the alliance.

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