Battles of the Isonzo

Isonzo front
	Part of Italian Front (World War I)
	; Depiction of the Battle of Doberdò.
Date	23 May 1915 – 27 October 1917; (2 years, 5 months and 4 days)
Location	Isonzo River valley
Result	Five Italian victories; Three inconclusive; Three Austro-Hungarian victories and final Central Powers victory;
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy	Austria-Hungary; German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Cadorna; Armando Diaz	Rudolf von Steinstätten; Svetozar Borojević
Units involved
2nd Army; 3rd Army	5th Army
Casualties and losses
645,000; (pre-Caporetto)	450,000; (pre-Caporetto)

The Battles of the Isonzo (known as the Isonzo Front by historians, Slovene: soška fronta) were a series of twelve battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in World War I mostly on the territory of present-day Slovenia, and the remainder in Italy along the Isonzo River on the eastern sector of the Italian Front between June 1915 and November 1917.

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