Editing Belgrade (section)

===World War I: Austro–German invasion ===
[[File:Bg-7 Panorama s Topčiderskog brda 1920.jpg|thumb|900px|center|Belgrade seen from [[Topčider]] hill in 1920.]]

The First World War began on 28 July 1914 when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Most of the subsequent Balkan offensives occurred near Belgrade. [[Austro-Hungarian Navy|Austro-Hungarian]] [[Monitor (warship)|monitors]] shelled Belgrade on 29 July 1914, and it was taken by the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] under General [[Oskar Potiorek]] on 1 December. On 16 December, it was re-taken by [[Serbian Campaign (World War I)|Serbian troops]] under Marshal [[Radomir Putnik]]. After a prolonged battle which destroyed much of the city, starting on 6 October 1915, Belgrade fell to [[German Army (German Empire)|German]] and Austro-Hungarian troops commanded by Field Marshal [[August von Mackensen]] on 9 October of the same year. The city was liberated by Serbian and [[French Army|French troops]] on 1 November 1918, under the command of Marshal [[Louis Franchet d'Espèrey]] of France and [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia]]. Belgrade, devastated as a front-line city, lost the title of largest city in the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Kingdom]] to [[Subotica]] for some time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.balkanology.com/serbia/article_vojvodina.html |title=Serbia :: Vojvodina |publisher=Balkanology |access-date=7 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312085105/http://balkanology.com/serbia/article_vojvodina.html |archive-date=12 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>