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Balkan Resistance
Part of Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
LocationAlbania, Yugoslavia, Greek mainland and the Greek islands
Result

Allied victory

Territorial
changes
Axis powers expelled from the Balkans by the end of the war in 1945
Belligerents

 Germany
Template:Country data Fascist Italy (1922-*1943)
Bulgaria Tsardom of Bulgaria  Hungary  Government of National Salvation *** Pećanac Chetniks Montenegro Slovene Home Guard Balli Kombëtar
(from 1943)


Greece Hellenic State

Chetniks Yugoslav Partisans* LANÇ
Balli Kombëtar
(until 1943)

{flagicon|Greece|old}} EAM-ELAS

Greece EDES
Bulgaria
  • Support:

 Soviet Union Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslav government-in-exile  United Kingdom

 United States
Commanders and leaders

Franz Böhme
{{nowrap|Nazi Germany Günther Altenburg
Nazi Germany Wilhelm List
Nazi Germany Walter Kuntze
Nazi Germany Hermann Neubacher
Nazi Germany Alexander Löhr
Fascist Italy Pellegrino Ghigi
Fascist Italy Carlo Geloso
Fascist Italy Carlo Vecchiarelli
Fascist Italy Inigo Campioni
* Mehdi Frashëri

Yugoslav Partisans Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslav Partisans Aleksandar Ranković
Yugoslav Partisans Miloš Minić
Yugoslav Partisans Koča Popović
]
Yugoslav Partisans Peko Dapčević
Chetniks Draža Mihailović
Chetniks Dragoslav Račić
Chetniks Dragutin Keserović
Chetniks Veselin Misita 
* Enver Hoxha

Greece Aris Velouchiotis
Greece Stefanos Sarafis
Greece Andreas Tzimas
Greece Evripidis Bakirtzis
Strength

1,10,5000

Template:Country data Fascist Italy (1922-*1943)361,000

Chetniks 93,000 (1943) Yugoslav Partisans 100,000 (1943)
800,000 (1945) ~40,000 (1944)

Greece 45,000 men of ELAS (1944)
Greece 10,000 men of EDES (1944)
Greece Yugoslavia Albania Bulgaria

Albania *  Hungary *  Bulgaria *  Independent State of Croatia }}

  1. Microcopy No. T314, roll 566, frames 778 – 785
  2. Borković, p. 9. sfn error: no target: CITEREFBorković (help)
  3. Zbornik dokumenata Vojnoistorijskog instituta: tom XII – Dokumenti jedinica, komandi i ustanova nemačkog Rajha – knjiga 3, p. 619
  4. Perica 2004, p. 96. sfn error: no target: CITEREFPerica2004 (help)