Battle

Battle of Monte Piana

24 May 1915 – 22 Oct 1917 · 46.62° N, 12.24° E

Open on the map

What the records say

When
24 May 1915 – 22 Oct 1917
Kind
Battle
Coordinates
46.62° N, 12.24° E
Description
1915 battle
War
World War I

Battle of Monte Piana

1915 Italo-Austro Hungarian battle

The Battle of Monte Piana was a long and bloody series of clashes that took place on the summit of Monte Piana which is part of the Sexten Dolomites massif. Between 1915 and 1917 some of the most violent clashes took place between Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers who fought for two years on the flat top of this mountain. It was one of the bloodiest and most static theaters of the entire war, and despite the clea…

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

The source

Part of

Nearby in time and place