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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 a fixed barrier, composed of lightly armed naval drifters (modified fishing boats ) with anti-submarine nets coupled with minefields and supported by Allied naval patrols.
During World War I, the strait was of strategic significance. The Allied navies of Italy , France , and Great Britain , by blockading the strait, mostly with light naval forces and lightly armed fishing vessels known as drifters , hindered the cautious Austro-Hungarian Navy from freely entering the Mediterranean Sea , and effectively kept them ...
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.
Historic map of Otranto by Piri Reis The fortress. Otranto occupies the site of the ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia Hydrus (in Greek: Ὑδροῦς) or Hydruntum (in Latin), also known as Hydrunton, Hydronton, or Hydruntu. Otranto was a town of Messapian (Illyrian) origin, which, in the wars of Pyrrhus and of Hannibal sided against Rome.
Battle of the Strait of Otranto can refer to: 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
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.
Locator map of Salento, displayed in red. The Salento peninsula is composed of limestone, dividing the Gulf of Taranto to the west from the Strait of Otranto on the east, with the Adriatic Sea to the north and the Ionian Sea to the south.
It is located in Southwestern Albania along the Albanian Ionian Sea Coast, whereas the Strait of Otranto separates it from Italy. The Strait of Mezokanal separates the peninsula from Sazan Island, while in the southeast stretches the Bay of Vlorë.