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Tenth Battle Of The Isonzo
The Tenth Battle of the Isonzo was an Italian offensive against Austria-Hungary during World War I. Background With nine largely unsuccessful Isonzo battles conducted within an eighteen-month period to date, Italian Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna – responsible for launching all nine – became increasingly uncomfortable at the prospect of German intervention to aid their weakening Austro-Hungarian ally on the Italian Front. For while it was clear that the Austro-Hungarian Army was suffering in what had become a war of attrition, the same could be said of Cadorna's army. Casualties suffered to date were tremendous and with each renewed battle tended to be higher on the Italian attackers side. The UK's new Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, had long believed that the war could not be won on the Western Front alone. Dubbed an "easterner" at home Lloyd George was nevertheless in favour of diverting British and French resources from the Western Front to the Italians along the So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Front (World War I)
The Italian front or Alpine front ( it, Fronte alpino, "Alpine front"; in german: Gebirgskrieg, "Mountain war") involved a series of battles at the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy, fought between 1915 and 1918 in the course of World War I. Following secret promises made by the Allies in the 1915 Treaty of London, Italy entered the war aiming to annex the Austrian Littoral, northern Dalmatia, and the territories of present-day Trentino and South Tyrol. Although Italy had hoped to gain the territories with a surprise offensive, the front soon bogged down into trench warfare, similar to that on the Western Front in France, but at high altitudes and with very cold winters. Fighting along the front displaced much of the local population, and several thousand civilians died from malnutrition and illness in Italian and Austro-Hungarian refugee-camps. The Allied victory at Vittorio Veneto, the disintegration of the Habsburg empire, and the Italian capture of Trento and Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Škabrijel
Škabrijel ( it, Monte San Gabriele) is a mountain, 646 metres high, above the town of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. The mountain was named after the Archangel Gabriel. History During the First World War it was an impregnable stronghold of the Austro-Hungarian Army, full of tunnels and trenches. The mountain was hard-fought over in the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, when the top of the San Gabriel was lost and recaptured nine times by the Austro-Hungarians. One officer said about the fighting, "Around 6e in the morning, an Italian attacked for the first time, and then it went all day. But we always repulsed him with hand grenades, machine guns tried to take the trenches. I was on the left wing with six other men, strong and fearless. They went forward when he attacked, even the second time they persisted even though they were wounded and one dead. We held out and repulsed him with hand grenades." Due to artillery bombardment by the Italian Army during WW1, the hill is bare. Geography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kostanjevica Na Krasu
Kostanjevica na Krasu (; it, Castagnevizza) is one of the main settlements and the administrative centre of the Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Karst Plateau, not far from Nova Gorica and the border with Italy. Name Kostanjevica was attested in written records in 1350 as ''Costangnawicz.'' Like other settlements that share the name (e.g., '' Kostanjevica'', ''Kostanjevica na Krki''), it is derived from the Slovene common noun ''kostanj'' ' chestnut', referring to the local vegetation. The name was changed to ''Kostanjevica na Krasu'' (literally, 'Kostanjevica on the Karst Plateau') in 1952. During the interwar period it was known as ''Castagnevizza del Carso'' in Italian. History Belonging to Austrian Littoral, it was part of County of Gorizia and Gradisca. During First World War, it was destroyed and its settlers were forced to leave it, sharing the destiny of many Slovene refugees affected by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rožna Dolina
Rožna Dolina (; it, Valdirose, german: link=no, Rosenthal) is one of the four suburbs of the town of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia (the others being Solkan, Kromberk, and Pristava). It is on the border with Italy. Before 1947, it used to be a suburb of the town of Gorizia, which was left to Italy in the Paris Peace Conference of February 1947. It was the site of one of the major engagements in the Ten-Day War for the independence of Slovenia in June 1991. The University of Nova Gorica is located in Rožna Dolina. The largest Jewish cemetery in Slovenia and one of the largest in the Alpe-Adria region is located in Rožna Dolina. Among other graves, it contains the tomb of the Italian philosopher Carlo Michelstaedter. Lucy Christalnigg, first victim on the Isonzo Front, was a resident of Rožna Dolina. She was on her way back to Rožna Dolina in August 1914, when she was shot by two ''Landsturm In German-speaking countries, the term ''Landsturm'' was historically u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sveta Gora
Sveta Gora (; it, Monte Santo di Gorizia) is a settlement in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Nova Gorica. It encompasses Holy Mount ( sl, Sveta gora), above the Soča Valley and southwest of the Banjšice Plateau. History In 1539 Uršula Ferligoj, a shepherd from Grgar, had a vision in which the Virgin Mary commanded her to tell the people to build her a church. In May 1917 Sveta Gora was the scene of heavy fighting between Austrian and Italian forces. Several Austro-Hungarian bunkers are found along Skalnica Road (''Skalniška cesta'') leading to the Franciscan monastery and church at the top of Mount Skalnica (). Sveta Gora became an independent settlement in 2006, when its territory was administratively separated from the territory of Solkan and Grgar Grgar (; it, Gargaro) is a village in western Slovenia in the Municipality of Nova Gorica. It is located under Holy Mount ( sl, Sveta gora), above the Soča Valley and below the Banjšice Plateau. Name Grgar was mentio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Vodice
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England * Mounts, Indiana, a community in Gibson County, Indiana, United States People * Mount (surname) * William L. Mounts (1862–1929), American lawyer and politician Computing and software * Mount (computing), the process of making a file system accessible * Mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems Displays and equipment * Mount, a fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe * Mounting board, in picture framing * Mount, a hanging scroll for mounting paintings * Mount, to display an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore, e.g.: ** To pin a biological specimen, on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissection or display ** To p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagomila
Zagomila () is a small settlement in the Municipality of Kanal ob Soči in western Slovenia. Until 2007, the area was part of the settlement of Plave. The settlement is part of the traditional region of the Slovenian Littoral and is included in the Gorizia Statistical Region The Gorizia Statistical Region ( sl, Goriška statistična regija) is a statistical region in western Slovenia, along the border with Italy. It is named after the Italian town of Gorizia (the feminine adjective ''goriška'' comes from the Sloveni .... References External linksZagomila at Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Kanal 2007 establishments in Slovenia {{KanalobSoči-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagora, Kanal
Zagora () is a small settlement in the Municipality of Kanal ob Soči in western Slovenia. Until 2007, the area was part of the settlement of Plave. The settlement is part of the traditional region of the Slovenian Littoral and is included in the Gorizia Statistical Region The Gorizia Statistical Region ( sl, Goriška statistična regija) is a statistical region in western Slovenia, along the border with Italy. It is named after the Italian town of Gorizia (the feminine adjective ''goriška'' comes from the Sloveni .... References External linksZagora at Geopedia Populated places in the Municipality of Kanal 2007 establishments in Slovenia {{KanalobSoči-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Kuk
Mount Kuk ( it, Monte Cucco or ''Monte Cucco di Plava'') is mountain in Slovenia, near the border with Italy. It is located northeast of Gorizia, near the village of Plave and on the southern edge of the Banjšice Plateau, and along with nearby and it forms a mountain ridge along the course of the Isonzo. It was heavily contested by Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops during the battles of the Isonzo in World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ..., and was located in Italy from 1918 to 1943. References {{coord, 46, 01, 41, N, 13, 37, 11, E, type:mountain_region:SI, display=title Mountains of the Slovene Littoral Mountains under 1000 metres Karst Mountains of the Alps Military history of Italy during World War I it:Monte Cucco di Plava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Badoglio
Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino (, ; 28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956), was an Italian general during both World Wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa. With the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, he became Prime Minister of Italy. Early life and career Badoglio was born in 1871. His father, Mario Badoglio, was a modest landowner, and his mother, Antonietta Pittarelli, was of middle-class background. On 5 October 1888 he was admitted to the Royal Military Academy in Turin. He received the rank of Second Lieutenant in 1890. In 1892, he finished his studies and was promoted to Lieutenant. After completing his studies, he served with the ''Regio Esercito'' (Italian Royal Army) from 1892, at first as a Lieutenant (''Lieutenant, Tenente'') in artillery, taking part in the early Italian colonial wars in Eritrea (1896), and in Libya (1912). First World War At the beginning of Italian participation in the First World War, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plave
Plave (; it, Plava) is a settlement on the right bank of the Soča River southwest of Anhovo in the Municipality of Kanal ob Soči in the Littoral region of Slovenia. The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to John the Baptist and belongs to the Diocese of Koper Koper (; it, Capodistria, hr, Kopar) is the fifth largest city in Slovenia. Located in the Istrian region in the southwestern part of the country, approximately five kilometres () south of the border with Italy and 20 kilometres () from Triest .... References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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