Sabotin ( it, Sabotino, fur, Mont di San Valantin) is mountain ridge overlooking
Gorizia
Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label= Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Gori ...
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Nova Gorica
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, and
Solkan on the border between Slovenia and Italy. At its foot stands the
Solkan Bridge
The Solkan Bridge ( sl, Solkanski most, it, Ponte di Salcano) is a arch bridge over the Soča River near Nova Gorica in western Slovenia (by railway terminology it is a viaduct). With an arch span of , it is the world's longest stone arch rail ...
spanning the
Soča River.
Name
The mountain was first attested in written sources circa 1370 as ''Saluatin''. The name is of unclear origin. Based on the oldest transcriptions of the name, it can be derived from ''*Salbotin'', based on the Latin personal name ''Salvus'' (literally, 'healthy'). Another possibility (assuming that the old transcriptions are wrong) is that the name was originally ''Sabotin'', based on the Italian name ''Sàb(b)ato'', originally given to a child born on a Saturday. A third possibility is that it is derived from ''*San Valentin'' (there is a church dedicated to
Saint Valentine on the mountain) through a number of unexpected phonological changes.
History
Sabotin represented an important defence point defending Gorizia during the Soča/Isonzo offensives. It was defended by the Austro-Hungarian 58th division.
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 ...
assigned general Giuseppe Venturi's 45th division to capture Sabotin in the
Sixth Battle of the Isonzo
The Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, better known as the Battle of Gorizia, was the most successful Italian offensive along the Soča (Isonzo) River during World War I.
Background
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf had reduced the Austro-Hungarian fo ...
. On 6 August 1916, after a brief and bloody battle, the mountain was captured by the Italians.
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Mountains of the Slovene Littoral
Mountains under 1000 metres