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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: Battles of the Isonzo, Battle of Caporetto, Battle of the Piave River, Battle of Vittorio Veneto, Tenth Battle of the Isonzo, First Battle of the Isonzo, Battle of Asiago, Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, Third Battle of the Isonzo, Second Battle of the Isonzo, Fifth Battle of the Isonzo, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, Ninth Battle of the Isonzo, Fourth Battle of the Isonzo, Seventh Battle of the Isonzo, Eighth Battle of the Isonzo, Battle of San Matteo, Battle of Mount Ortigara, Battle of Doberdo. Excerpt: The plain at the confluence of the Isonzo and Vipava river around Gorizia: the main passage from Northern Italy to Central Europe ."Battles of the Isonzo " were a series of 12 battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in World War I . They were fought along the Isonzo River on the eastern sector of the Italian Front between June 1915 and November 1917. Most of the battles were fought on the territory of modern Slovenia, and the remainder in Italy .During the First World War, the Isonzo valley was part of the Alpine sector of the Italian Front, along which the armies of Italy and Austria-Hungary clashed. It is known as the So ka fronta in Slovene and is usually translated as the Isonzo Front by historians.Geographical location and strategic importance Remains of an Austro-Hungarian fortification between Bovec and Log pod Mangrtom .The So a is located in present-day Slovenia and Italy . During World War I, however, the sixty-mile long river ran entirely inside Austria-Hungary in parallel to the border with Italy. The valley is flanked by relatively high mountains on both sides, which are lower in the western and higher on the eastern side. It runs from the Vr i and Predil Pass in the Julian Alps to the Adriatic Sea, widening dramatically just few kilometers north of Gorizia, thus opening a narrow...