Series of major battles between Italy and Austria-Hungary during WWI
For the Ostrogoth invasion of Italy, see Battle of Isonzo (489).
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Isonzo front
Part of Italian Front (World War I)
Depiction of the Battle of Doberdò.
Date
23 May 1915 – 27 October 1917 (2 years, 5 months and 4 days)
Location
Isonzo River valley
Result
Five Italian victories
Three inconclusive
Three Austro-Hungarian victories and final Central Powers victory[1]
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy
Austria-Hungary German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz
Rudolf von Steinstätten Svetozar Borojević
Units involved
2nd Army 3rd Army
5th Army
Casualties and losses
645,000 (pre-Caporetto)
450,000 (pre-Caporetto)
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Italian Front
1915
1st Isonzo
Col Basson
2nd Isonzo
Podgora
3rd Isonzo
4th Isonzo
1916
5th Isonzo
Asiago (Monte Cengio)
Gorizia (6th Isonzo) (Doberdò)
7th Isonzo
8th Isonzo
9th Isonzo
White Friday
1917
10th Isonzo
Flondar
Ortigara
11th Isonzo
Caporetto (12th Isonzo)
Pozzuolo
1st Piave River
1st Monte Grappa
1918
2nd Piave River (Capture of Col Moschin)
2nd Monte Grappa
San Matteo
3rd Monte Grappa
Vittorio Veneto
White War (1915–1918)
Adamello
Pasubio
Sentinella Pass
Marmolada
Lagazuoi
Col di Lana
Tofane
Monte Cristallo
Monte Piana
Tre Cime di Lavaredo
Monte Paterno
The plain at the confluence of the Soča and Vipava rivers around Gorizia is the main passage from Northern Italy to Central Europe.
The Battles of the Isonzo (known as the Isonzo Front by historians, Slovene: soška fronta) were a series of twelve battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in World War I mostly on the territory of present-day Slovenia, and the remainder in Italy along the Isonzo River on the eastern sector of the Italian Front between June 1915 and November 1917.
^Palazzo, Albert (2002). Seeking Victory on the Western Front. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. p. 111. ISBN 0803287747. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
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