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Battle of Velestino (1st)
1897
30 April 1897
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type of battle

war or event

1st Greco- Turkish War

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location

modern country

Ottoman commander Edhem Pasha advanced into Thessaly through victory at Mati (23 April) to seize Larissa from the fleeing Greeks and sent Mahmud Bey southeast towards the strategic railway junction at Velestino, held by heavily outnumbered Greeks under Colonel Konstantinos Smolenskis. After a disastrous cavalry charge and over 1,200 casualties, the Turks fell back.


   
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