Corfu incident

When

31 Aug 1923

Kind

Event

Coordinates

39.67° N, 19.75° E

Description

The Italian navy occupies Corfu, in retaliation for the murder of an Italian officer. The League of Nations protests, and the occupation ends on September 30.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Corfu incident.

1923 Greek–Italian military crisis

The Corfu incident was a 1923 diplomatic and military crisis between Greece and Italy. It was triggered when Enrico Tellini, an Italian general heading a commission to resolve a border dispute between Albania and Greece, was murdered in Greek territory along with two other officers of his staff.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “incident de Corfou”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “захват Италией острова Корфу (Керкира)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “科孚事件。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “イタリアがギリシャのケルキラ島を占拠（コルフ島事件）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page