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The Soča valley was the stage of major military operations including the twelve battles of the Isonzo on the Italian front in World War I between May 1915 and November 1917, in which over 600, 000 Austro-Hungarian and Italian soldiers lost their lives.
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Soča and valley
In 1906, Bohinj Railway was built, connecting Villach with Jesenice, along the Soča river valley to Gorizia and further to Trieste, with two over-6000 meter tunnels.
Zone B, much of the Julian March, was under Yugoslav administration, excluding the cities of Pula, Gorizia, Trieste, the Isonzo / Soča valley and most of the Kras plateau, which were under joint British-American administration.
Soča and was
He was assigned to the southwestern front of the Soča battlefield and there he experienced a breakthrough of Austrian army to the river Piava and its retreat.
This appealed to emperor Francis Joseph and he was given command on the Soča ( Isonzo ) front.
The name was coined to denote a geographical region, roughly coinciding with the Austrian Littoral, limited by the lower flow of the Isonzo / Soča river and the Gulf of Trieste in the west, the Julian Alps in the north and north-east, and Carniola and Liburnia to the east, thus including all of the Kras Plateau and most of the Istrian peninsula.
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.
Between June 1945 and September 1947, Bovec and the whole right bank of the Soča River was included in the Zone A of the Julian March, which was under Allied military administration, with the demarcation line with the Yugoslav occupation zone running just a few kilometers east of the town.
Soča and military
The Morgan Line, which divided the Allied military occupation zone from the Yugoslav one, ran just eastwards of the town, along the Soča River.
Soča and including
It lives in the waters that flow underground through this extensive limestone region, including waters of the Soča river basin near Trieste, Italy, through to southern Slovenia, southwestern Croatia, and Herzegovina.
Soča and battles
Some of the fiercest battles were fought along the Soča ( Isonzo ) river and on the Kras ( Carso ) plateau in what is now western Slovenia.
Soča and Isonzo
* August 28 – Battle of Isonzo: Theodoric defeats the overwhelming forces of Odoacer at Soča ( near Aquileia ), forcing his way into Italy.
The Soča ( in Slovene ) or Isonzo ( in Italian ) ( other names, archaic, ) is a long river that flows through western Slovenia () and northeastern Italy ().
Course of the Soča / Isonzo
The former estuary ( of the Aesontius, and the early Soča / Isonzo ) in the newly formed lagoon of Grado became an independent coastal rivulet.
The Isonzo / Soča is also well known for its unique trout species Salmo marmoratus ( known as the marble trout ), which lives in the upper course of the crystal-clear river.
The two main rivers are the Tagliamento, which flows west-east in its upper part in the Carnic Alps and then bends into a north-south flow that separates the Julian Alps from Alpine foothills and the Isonzo ( Soča slo.
The settlement lies in the Bovec Basin of the Soča ( Isonzo ) Valley, below the eastern slopes of Mount Kanin in the Julian Alps.
Italy opened the war with an offensive aimed at capturing the town of Gorizia ( Gorica ) on the Soča ( Isonzo ) river, and capturing the highlands on the Kras plateau and in the western Julian March, which would enable them to secure a further advance towards Trieste ( Trst ), Rijeka ( Fiume ), Kranj ( Krainburg ) and Ljubljana ( Laibach ).
Soča and on
World War I resulted in heavy casualties for Slovenia, particularly on the bloody Soča front in Slovenia's western border area.
It is located on a terrace above the confluence of the Soča and Tolminka rivers.
In Slovenia, for example, the railway station " Most na Soči " serving the town of the same name is located on the other bank of the river Soča, about a mile away from the town.
Two of the most important mountain passes in the Julian Alps are located in the Municipality of Bovec: the Predil Pass on the border between Slovenia and Italy in the northwest, and the Vršič Pass in the northeast, which connects the Soča Valley to Kranjska Gora in the neighbouring Slovenian region of Upper Carniola.
The lands on the upper Soča River were finally included in the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy under Emperor Maximilian I upon the War of the League of Cambrai in 1509 and added to the lands of Görz ( Gorizia ) in the south, which Maximilian had inherited in 1500.
Soča and Italian
The Soča River in Italian region.
Kobarid (,, ) is a town and a municipality in the Upper Soča Valley, western Slovenia, near the Italian border.
Soča and 1915
* Battle of Soča ( 1915 )
Soča and which
During the next centuries the estuary of this new river — the Soča — moved eastward until it captured the short coastal river Sdobba, through which the Soča now discharges into the Adriatic Sea.
Soča and over
With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.
The town itself is an important crossing point over the Soča River.
Soča and 600
* RG 600 / 601 " Soča "
Soča and lost
In 705, the Friuli Lombards were defeated and lost the land to the west of the Soča River, namely the Gorizia Hills and the Venetian Slovenia.
Soča and their
From it the valleys spread out radially, supplying water to two large river systems with their sources in the Julian Alps: the Soča and the Sava, flowing to the Adriatic and Black Sea, respectively.
From it the valleys spread out radially, supplying water to two large river systems having their sources in the Julian Alps: the Soča and the Sava, flowing to the Adriatic and Black Sea, respectively.
Soča and .
Between the upper Sava and the Soča rivers lived the Carni, and towards the end of the sixth century Slavs settled the region called by Latin writers Carnia, or Carniola meaning ' little Carnia ', i. e. part of greater Carnia.
Waters in Triglav National Park consist of two watersheds: the Sava River watershed and the Soča River watershed.
Many waterfalls can be found in the park, and most of them are located in the valleys of Soča River and its tributaries.
The Soča inspired the poet Simon Gregorčič to write his best-known poem Soči ( To the Soča ), one of the masterpieces of Slovene poetry.
* The Walks of Peace in the Soča Region Foundation.
File: Soca Kobarid. jpg | Soča River near Kobarid
* The Walks of Peace in the Soča Region Foundation.
Soča Reggae Riversplash is a music festival in Tolmin, Slovenia at the confluence of the Soča and the Tolminka rivers.
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