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Allied Army of the Orient

The Allied Army of the Orient (AAO) was the name of the unified command over the multi-national allied armed forces on the Salonika front during the First World War.

Commanders of the AAO
• 11 August 1916: General Maurice Sarrail • 15 December 1917: General Adolphe Guillaumat • 17 June 1918: General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey == Composition ==
Composition
France Živojin Mišić and British General George MilneArmée d'Orient (1915–19): 8 divisions Great Britain British Salonika Army: 6 divisions Serbia The Serbian armies were corps sized formations. • First Army, under command of Živojin Mišić and later Petar BojovićSecond Army, under command of Stepa StepanovićThird Army, under command of Pavle Jurišić Šturm and later Colonel Miloš Vasić (dissolved in May 1917) Russia • 2 brigades of the Russian Expeditionary Force under command of Mikhail Diterikhs Italy • 35th Infantry Division (:it:Corpo di spedizione italiano in Macedonia) under • Carlo Petitti di Roreto (July 1916 – April 1917) • Giuseppe Pennella (26 April – 24 May 1917) • Ernesto Mombelli (24 May 1917 – end 1918) • XVI Italian Army Corps: This Corpo di spedizione Italiano in Oriente (CSIO), an Italian Army Corps in Albania, remained under direct Italian HQ command and thus wasn't part of the AAO • Emilio Bertotti (20 November 1915 – 8 March 1916) • Settimio Piacentini (8 March – 17 June 1916) • Oreste Bandini (18 June – 11 December 1916), was killed in the sinking of the Regina MargheritaGiacinto Ferrero (11 December 1916 - end of war) Greece • In September 1916, 10,000 men under command of Colonels Zymvrakakis and Mazarakis • By January 1918, 10 divisions (204,000 men) under command of Panagiotis Danglis • I Army Corps (Lieutenant General Leonidas Paraskevopoulos) • 1st Larissa Division (Major-General Konstantinos Nider) • 2nd Athens Division (Colonel Ioulianos Kondoratos) • 13th Chalkida Division (Major General Ioakovos Negropondis) • National Defence Army Corps (Major General Emmanuil Zimvrakakis) • Serres Division (under Major General Epaminondas Zimvrakakis) • Archipelago Division (General Dimitrios Ioannou) • Crete Division (Major General Panayiotis Spiliades) • II Αrmy Corps (Lieutenant General Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos) • 3rd Patras Division (Colonel Nikolaos Trikoupis) • 4th Nafplion Division (Colonel Nikolaos Vlachopoulos) • 14th Kalamata Division (Colonel Ioannis Orfanides) • Reserves • 9th Nafplion Division (Major General Georgios Leonardopoulos) Others • Portugal: 1 brigade • Albania: 1,000 irregular troops under Essad Pasha Toptani • Montenegro: irregular troops == Notes ==
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