battle, First World War

Battle of Doberdò

Battle of Doberdò was a battle fought on 6 August 1916 at Gorizia, in what is now Italy. It was part of the Italian Front, which ran from 1915 to 1918. The recorded result: Italian victory.

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1. WK - Nahkampf auf dem Doberdo (Isonzo-Front). Rudolf Alfred Höger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Record

Date	6 August 1916
Place	Gorizia, Italy 45.835N, 13.549E
Part of	Italian Front (1915 to 1918)
Kind	Battle, First World War
Result	Italian victory
Belligerents	Kingdom of Italy	Austria-Hungary
Commanders	Luigi Cadorna; Settimio Piacentini; Prince Emanuele Filiberto	Conrad von Hötzendorf; Svetozar Boroević
Casualties and losses	6,000 casualties	9,300 casualties

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Second Battle of the Isonzo 1915, 3.6 km
Ninth Battle of the Isonzo 1916, 11 km
Third Battle of the Isonzo 1915, 12 km
Sixth Battle of the Isonzo 1916, 12 km
Eighth Battle of the Isonzo 1916, 12 km

In the same war

Before: Sixth Battle of the Isonzo 6 August 1916
After: Seventh Battle of the Isonzo 14 September 1916
All 16 engagements of Italian Front

Elsewhere in 1916

Battle of Verdun France
Battle of the Somme France
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Asiago Italy
Romanian Army offensive in Transylvania in 1916 Romania

Battle of Doberdò is one of 1,912 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 626 in present-day Italy.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q757186, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Doberdò, revision 1376370808, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.