Orsova Offensive

Orsova Offensive
	Part of the Romanian Campaign of World War I
	; Emperor Franz Joseph at the Orsova railway station (1896)
Date	28 August–4 September 1916
Location	Orsova, Banat, Austria-Hungary (today in Romania)
Result	Romanian victory
Belligerents
Romania	Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Ioan Culcer; Ion Dragalina	Arthur Arz von Straussenburg; Rudolf von Fiebich-Ripke
Units involved
1st Army 1st Infantry Division;	1st Army 145th Infantry Brigade; SMS Álmos;
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown; 25 tons of coal

The Orsova Offensive was a military engagement fought between the armies of Romania and Austria-Hungary at the start of the Romanian Campaign in August–September 1916. It ended in a Romanian victory which led to the Romanian occupation of the west bank of the Cserna (Cerna) River for over two months.

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