Siege of Przemyśl

When

9 Nov 1914 – 22 Mar 1915

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

49.78° N, 22.77° E

Description

1914, 2nd siege

War

World War I

1914–15 battle on the Eastern Front of World War I

The Siege of Przemyśl was the longest siege in Europe during the First World War, and the second-longest in the entire conflict, after the Siege of Medina. The siege was a crushing defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Army by the Russian Army. Przemyśl was a fortress-town and stronghold on the River San in Austrian Galicia.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Belagerung von Przemyśl, die größte im Ersten Weltkrieg, endet mit der Kapitulation der österreich-ungarischen Truppen gegenüber den russischen…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “capitulation de la place autrichienne de Przemysl devant les Russes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “после продолжительной осады крепость Перемышль была взята русской армией”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War I28 Jul 1914 · Interstate war · Deaths 17,000,000