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The Battle of the Strait of Otranto of 1917 was the result of an Austro-Hungarian raid during the Adriatic Campaign of World War I on the Otranto Barrage, an Allied naval blockade of the Strait of Otranto. The battle took place on 15 May 1917, and was the largest surface action in the Adriatic Sea during World War I. [1]
The Otranto Barrage was an Allied naval blockade of the Strait of Otranto between Brindisi in Italy and Corfu on the Greek side of the Adriatic Sea in the First World War. The operation consisted of over 200 vessels at the height of the blockade.
Bay of Vlora Otranto harbour. The Strait of Otranto (Albanian: Ngushtica e Otrantos; Italian: Canale d'Otranto) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania. Its width between Punta Palascìa, eastern Salento, and Karaburun Peninsula, western Albania, is less than 72 km (45 miles; 39 nautical miles). [1]
Otranto is the setting of Horace Walpole's book The Castle of Otranto, which is generally held to be the first Gothic novel. Walpole had chosen the town from a map of the Kingdom of Naples because the name was "well-sounding"; he was not aware that Otranto had a castle until 1786, some twenty-two years after the novel was first published under ...
Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1917), a 1917 naval battle during World War I Action in the Strait of Otranto , a 1940 naval battle during World War II Topics referred to by the same term
The attack on the Otranto Barrage was cancelled as a consequence of this attack. [1] On 20 September, the French submarine Circé was torpedoed 7 nmi (13 km; 8.1 mi) north west of Cape Rodoni by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-47 and lost with all hands.
Francesco Zurolo; Francesco Zurolo: Leadership; Captain: Otranto garrison: Related articles; History: Francesco Zurolo (or Zurlo) was an Italian feudal lord, baron and Italian leader.He descended from one of the most important Neapolitan families from which he owned various lands/feuds in the Kingdom of Naples, the Zurolo (or Zurlo).
The full set of eight Italian stamps overprinted for Saseno in 1923. Saseno is the Italian name for Sazan Island (Albanian definite form: Sazani; Italian: Saseno) which is a small island strategically located between the Strait of Otranto and the entrance to the Bay of Vlorë in Albania.