Battle of Limanowa

Battle of Limanowa
Part of the Eastern Front during World War I
Winter battle in the Carpathians
Date 1–13 December 1914 Location Galicia Carpathian Mountains Result Austro-Hungarian victory
Belligerents
Austria-Hungary  German Empire	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Conrad von Hötzendorf Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria Svetozar Boroevic Joseph von Roth Alfred von Besser	Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov Radko Dimitriev Dmitry Shcherbachev Aleksei Brusilov
Units involved
III Army IV Army Group Szurmay 47th Reserve Division	III Army VIII Army
Strength
90,000	125,000
Casualties and losses
12,000 dead, wounded or captured	30,000 dead, wounded or captured

III Army
IV Army
Group Szurmay

The Battle of Limanowa took place from 1 December to 13 December 1914, between the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Russian Army near the town of Limanowa (40 kilometres (25 mi) south-east of Kraków).

The Austro-Hungarian high command had assumed that the German success would weaken Russian forces in the north and that the Galician front would remain quiet. Both these assumptions were incorrect.

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