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Kobarid is known for the Battle of Caporetto, where the Italian retreat was documented by Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms.
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Kobarid and is
The river runs past the towns of Bovec, Kobarid, Tolmin, Kanal ob Soči, Nova Gorica ( where it is crossed by the Solkan Bridge ) and Gorizia, entering the Adriatic Sea close to the Italian town of Monfalcone.
Kobarid (,, ) is a town and a municipality in the Upper Soča Valley, western Slovenia, near the Italian border.
The battle is well documented in the museum in the centre of Kobarid.
The municipality of Kobarid is governed by a mayor, elected by popular vote every 4 years, and a municipal council of 16 members.
In both the local and the national elections, Kobarid tends to favor conservative parties, especially the Slovenian Democratic Party ( which is the largest party in the municipal council ).
A small part of the region is located in the municipality of Kobarid in Slovenia, in the mountainous area around the villages of Breginj () and Livek ().
Kobarid and known
Immediately after the Italian armistice in September 1943, Kobarid was liberated by a Partisan uprising, and became the center of large liberated area of around 2, 500 square kilometers, known as the Kobarid Republic, administered by the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
After the Italian armistice, in early September 1943, most of the region was liberated by Yugoslav partisan insurgency, led by the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People, which established its own temporary administration, known as the Kobarid Republic.
The plan was supposed to be carried out in 1938, when the dictator visited Kobarid ( then officially known as Caporetto ).
The Battle of Caporetto ( also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo or the Battle of Karfreit as it was known by the Central Powers ), took place from 24 October to 19 November 1917, near the town of Kobarid ( now in Slovenia ), on the Austro-Italian front of World War I.
The battle was named after the Italian name of the town of Kobarid ( known as Karfreit in German ).
Throughout much of his command, including at Kobarid ( Caporetto ), Cadorna was known to have maintained poor relations with the other generals on his staff.
After the Italian armistice of September 1943, an uprising by the local populations took place in many areas: the town of Gorizia was temporary liberated by Slovene Partisans, while in the Upper Soča Valley, a liberated zone, known as the Kobarid Republic, lasted for three months, between September and November 1943.
Kobarid and for
* Alinei, Mario ( fc. b ), Interdisciplinary and linguistic evidence for Palaeolithic continuity of Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic populations in Eurasia, with an excursus on Slavic ethnogenesis, in Proceedings of Kobarid conference ( 2003 ).
On October 24, 1917 the Austrians and Germans launched the Battle of Caporetto ( Italian name for Kobarid ) with a huge artillery barrage followed by infantry using Hutier tactics, bypassing enemy strong points and attacking on the Italian rear.
Kobarid and Battle
Longarone was the site of a battle in World War I, in which a few companies of German troops lead by Erwin Rommel successfully captured an entire Italian division of over 10, 000, retreating after the Battle of Kobarid ( Caporetto ).
Kobarid and Caporetto
Kobarid was a comune of the Province of Gorizia ( as Caporetto ), except during the period between 1924 and 1927, when the Province of Gorizia was abolished and annexed to the Province of Udine.
The Isonzo river, location of the initial attacks at Kobarid ( Caporetto ).
When inadequate provisioning was combined with the gruelling night marches preceding the battle of Caporetto ( Kobarid ), a heavy toll was extracted from the German and Austro-Hungarian forces.
Although to this point the Italians had been left to fight on their own, after Kobarid ( Caporetto ) they were reinforced by six French infantry divisions and five British infantry divisions as well as sizeable air contingents.
After the defeat at Kobarid ( Caporetto ), Italian propaganda offices were established, promising land and social justice to soldiers.
Kobarid and Italian
During the Italian administration, Kobarid also became an important symbolic place of the Fascist regime because of its role in World War I.
An Italian military ossuary was built on the hill above the town, and Benito Mussolini visited Kobarid in 1938.
During this period, almost all Italian families that settled in Kobarid during the twenty-five years of Italian administration left the town.
* Kobarid, official page of municipality in Slovene, English, Italian and German
Kobarid and was
Between 1922 and 1943, Kobarid and the neighbouring villages, which had an exclusively Slovene-speaking population, was submitted to a policy of violent Fascist Italianization.
Kobarid and .
Kobarid has been inhabited since prehistoric times.
In early June 1945, Kobarid came under joined British-U. S. occupation and placed under Allied temporary military administration until the establishment of a final border between Italy and Yugoslavia.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Kobarid emerged as an important tourist center.
With the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, Kobarid became part of the independent Slovenian state.
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File: Soca Kobarid. jpg | Soča River near Kobarid
* Museum of World War I, Kobarid, the famous Museum of World War One in Kobarid, Slovenia.
The villages of Breginj, Logje, Sedlo, Kobarid, Borjana, Robidišče, Homec, Stanovišče, Podbela, Livek and Livške Ravne in the municipality of Kobarid are also part of the historical region of Venetian Slovenia ; they were however not annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, and are now part of the Republic of Slovenia.
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