Eastern Front

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military front theater of war

The Eastern Front was a major World War I theater of war stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, where the Russian Empire fought the Central Powers in large-scale, mobile campaigns.

Aliases (4)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	military front → theater of war →
casualties	millions of military and civilian deaths →
conflictBetween	Austro-Hungarian Empire → German Empire → Ottoman Empire → Russian Empire →
contrastWith	Western Front (World War I) →
endedBy	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk →
endTime	1918 →
extendsFrom	Baltic Sea →
extendsTo	Black Sea →
frontLength	over 1,000 miles →
hasCharacteristic	large-scale campaigns → long front line → mobile warfare →
hasOutcome	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk → collapse of Eastern Front after Russian withdrawal →
includesBattle	Battle of Tannenberg → Brusilov Offensive → First Battle of the Masurian Lakes → Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive → Kerensky Offensive → Lake Naroch Offensive → Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes →
includesCampaign	1914 Russian invasion of East Prussia → 1915 Central Powers offensive → Romanian Campaign (1916–1917) →
involvesCountry	Austria-Hungary → Bulgaria → German Empire → Ottoman Empire → Poland (partitioned territories) → Romania → Russian Empire → Serbia →
locatedIn	Eastern Europe →
mainAlliedPower	Russian Empire →
mainCentralPower	Austro-Hungarian Empire → German Empire →
notableCommander	Aleksei Brusilov → Erich Ludendorff → Nikolai Ivanov → Paul von Hindenburg →
opposedForce	Allied Powers → Central Powers →
partOf	World War I →
relatedEvent	Russian Revolution of 1917 →
startTime	1914 →

Referenced by (19)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battle of Tannenberg ("Eastern Front of World War I") → Brusilov Offensive ("Eastern Front of World War I") → Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) ("Central Powers occupation zone in the Eastern Front") → World War I home front in the Russian Empire ("Eastern Front of World War I") →	partOf
Battle of Tannenberg ("Eastern Front of World War I") → Romanian Campaign → World War I →	front
Austro-Hungarian Army ("Eastern Front of World War I") → Imperial German Army ("Eastern Front of World War I") →	engagedIn
World War I military fortifications →	geographicScope
European theatre of World War I →	hasPart
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk →	historicalRegion
Brusilov Offensive →	location
Central Powers →	majorFront
Lavr Kornilov ("Eastern Front of World War I") →	militaryConflict
Kolchak offensive in Siberia →	militaryTheater
Czechoslovak Legion →	theaterOfOperations
Battle of Tannenberg →	theatre
East Prussia ("World War I Eastern Front operations") →	wasSceneOf