Battles of the Isonzo

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;
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy	Austria-Hungary; German Empire (from 1917)
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Cadorna; Pietro Frugoni; Settimio Piacentini; Luigi Capello; Prince Emanuele Filiberto	Archduke Friedrich; Conrad von Hötzendorf; Arz von Straußenburg; Svetozar Borojević; Otto von Below
Units involved
2nd Army; 3rd Army	5th Army
Casualties and losses
645,000; (pre-Caporetto)	450,000; (pre-Caporetto)

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.

[1] 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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