Even this year, due to the pandemic, the traditional pluri-religious commemoration for the Austrian-Hungarian fallen of the 1914-18 World War is postponed.
2020 Ceremony for the Austrian-Hungarian fallen from Trieste, from the Austrian Littoral, and from their brother folks
7 November 2020: due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the traditional commemoration ceremony for the Austrian-Hungarian fallen of the 1914-18 World War is postponed.
TRIESTE, DECEMBER 1918, OPERATION PURGE: REMOVING THE “BAD” ITALIANS FROM TRIESTE
On November 3rd, 1918, as Italian troops entered the city, Trieste’s freedom ended. Office I.T.O. takes upon itself to rid the city of the “bad Italians”.
A YOUNG VIENNESE HERO
21 August 1917, a young Viennese hero: Oberleutnant Friedrich Franek The 11th battle of the Isonzo is Cadorna’s last push on the southern Isonzofront before Caporetto. And it is the bloodiest all Great War battles on the southern front. The two…
Trieste commemorates its Austro-Hungarian fallen on 10 November 2019
The commemoration takes place on Sunday, 10 November 2019, at 11AM, in the Austro-Hungarian military cemetery of Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, Karst plateau).
TIMAVO MAY 27th, 1917: THE FAILED VENTURE OF MAJOR GIOVANNI RANDACCIO AND THE FALSE TALE OF GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO
…Randaccio died an agonizing death […] D’Annunzio […] managed to turn his friend’s meaningless end into a gruesomely patriotic and romantic tale.