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31st Tank Infantry Regiment
The 31st Tank Regiment () is an inactive Armoured warfare, tank regiment of the Italian Army, which was based in Lecce in Apulia and last operationally assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Pinerolo". The regiment was formed in July 1937 by the Royal Italian Army and assigned to the 131st Armored Division "Centauro", I Armored Brigade. In April 1939, the regiment moved from Siena to Tirana in occupied Albania. In winter 1940-41 the regiment fought in the Greco-Italian War and in 1941 it participated in the Invasion of Yugoslavia. In November 1942, the regiment was sent to Italian Libya, Libya, where it fought in the Western Desert campaign and then in the Tunisian campaign. In April 1943 the regiment was disbanded due to the heavy losses it had suffered in the Battle of El Guettar. The regiment was immediately reformed in Italy, but it saw no further action, until German forces disbanded it after the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943. The regiment was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Army
The Italian Army ( []) is the Army, land force branch of the Italian Armed Forces. The army's history dates back to the Italian unification in the 1850s and 1860s. The army fought in colonial engagements in China and Italo-Turkish War, Libya. It fought in Northern Italy against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I, Abyssinia before World War II and in World War II in Albania, Balkans, North Africa, the Soviet Union, and Italy itself. During the Cold War, the army prepared itself to defend against a Warsaw Pact invasion from the east. Since the end of the Cold War, the army has seen extensive peacekeeping service and combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Its best-known combat vehicles are the Dardo IFV, Dardo infantry fighting vehicle, the Centauro (Tank destroyer), Centauro tank destroyer and the Ariete tank and among its aircraft the Agusta A129 Mangusta, Mangusta attack helicopter, recently deployed in UN missions. The headquarters of the Army General Staff are located in Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Libya
Libya (; ) was a colony of Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943. It was formed from the unification of the colonies of Italian Cyrenaica, Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania, Tripolitania, which had been Italian colonial empire, Italian possessions since 1911. From 1911 until the establishment of a unified colony in 1934, the territory of the two colonies was sometimes referred to as "Italian Libya" or Italian North Africa (''Africa Settentrionale Italiana'', or ASI). Both names were also used after the unification, with Italian Libya becoming the official name of the newly combined colony. Through its history, various infrastructure projects, most notably roads, Rail transport in Libya, railways and villages were set up, as well as archeology. It had a population of around 150,000 Italian settlers in Libya, Italians. The Italian colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were taken by Italy from the Ottoman E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koplik
Koplik (also known as Koplik i Poshtëm) is a town and former municipality in the northwestern tip of Albania. At the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision, and the seat of the municipality Malësi e Madhe. It was the seat of the former Malësi e Madhe District. The population at the 2011 census was 3,734.2011 census results It is situated north of the city of . As of June 2016, Koplik has been registered and administered as an international 'free economic trade zone' by the Albanian government. Name The name occurs as Cupelnich around 1200 in the work of Presbyter Diocleas; Kupêlnik in 1348; Copenico in 1416; Chopilich in 1614 in the report of the Venetian wri ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Yugoslav Army
The Yugoslav Army ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Jugoslovenska vojska, JV, Југословенска војска, ЈВ), commonly the Royal Yugoslav Army, was the principal Army, ground force of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It existed from the establishment of Yugoslavia in December 1918 until its surrender to the Axis powers on 17 April 1941. Aside from fighting along the First Austrian Republic, Austrian border in 1919 and 1920 related to territorial disputes, and some border skirmishes on its southern borders in the 1920s, the JV was not involved in fighting until April 1941 when it was quickly overcome by the Nazi Germany, German-led invasion of Yugoslavia. Shortly before the invasion, Serbian officers of the Yugoslav General Staff, encouraged by British Special Operations Executive personnel in Belgrade, led Yugoslav coup d'état, a coup d'état against Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and Dragiša Cvetković for Yugoslav accession to the Tripartite Pact, adhering to the Tripartite Pact. Beyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regiment "Cavalleggeri Di Lodi" (15th)
The Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Lodi" (15th) ( - "Chevau-légers of Lodi, Lombardy, Lodi") is a cavalry unit of the Italian Army based in Lecce in Apulia. In 1859, the Kingdom of Sardinia, after being victorious in the Second Italian War of Independence, traded the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice for the region of Lombardy, which the Second French Empire, French Empire had received from the Austrian Empire after the war. In September of the same year, the Royal Sardinian Army formed the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Lodi", which was named for the city of Lodi, Lombardy, Lodi in Lombardy. In 1866, the regiment fought in the Third Italian War of Independence and in 1870 in the Capture of Rome. In 1911-13, the regiment was deployed to Libya for the Italo-Turkish War. In World War I the regiment's squadrons fought on the Italian front (World War I), Italian front, Italian protectorate over Albania, Albanian front, Western Front (World War I), Western front, and Macedonian front. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittoriano
The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument (), also known as the Vittoriano or for synecdoche Altare della Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, in Rome, Italy. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was realized by Giuseppe Sacconi. From an architectural perspective, it was conceived as a modern '' forum'', an agora on three levels connected by stairways and dominated by a portico characterized by a colonnade. The complex process of national unity and liberation from foreign domination carried out by King Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, to whom the monument is dedicated, has a great symbolic and representative value, being architecturally and artistically centred on the unification of Italy—for this reason the Vittoriano is considered one of the national symbols of Italy. It also preserves the Altar of the Fatherl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
133rd Tank Regiment (Italy)
The 133rd Tank Regiment () is an inactive tank regiment of the Italian Army, which was based in Altamura in Apulia and last operationally assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Pinerolo". The regiment was formed in June 1941 by the Royal Italian Army and assigned to the 133rd Armored Division "Littorio". In March 1942, the regiment was transferred to Libya, where it fought in the Western Desert campaign. In November 1942, the regiment was destroyed during the Second Battle of El Alamein. In 1976 the regiment's flag and traditions were assigned to the 10th Tank Battalion "M.O. Bruno", which had become an autonomous unit on 1 November 1975 and been assigned to the 132nd Armored Brigade "Manin". In 1991, the 10th Tank Battalion "M.O. Bruno" was disbanded the flag of the 133rd Tank Infantry Regiment was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome. In 1992, the regiment reformed by renaming the 60th Tank Regiment "M.O. Locatelli". In 1995, the regiment was disband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altamura
Altamura (; ; ) is a town and ''comune'' of Apulia, in southern Italy. It is located on one of the hills of the Altopiano delle Murge, Murge plateau in the Metropolitan City of Bari, southwest of Bari, close to the border with Basilicata. , its population amounts to 70,595 inhabitants. The city is known for its particular quality of bread called Pane di Altamura, which is sold in numerous other Italian cities. The 130,000-year-old calcified Altamura Man was discovered in 1993 in the nearby limestone cave called ''grotta di Lamalunga''. History The area of modern Altamura was densely inhabited in the Bronze Age (La Croce settlement and necropolis). The region contains some fifty Tumulus, tumuli. Between the 6th and the 3rd century BC a massive line of megalithic walls were erected, traces of which are still visible in some areas of the city. Ancient city The city was inhabited until around the tenth century AD. Then it was reportedly looted by Saracens. There are no reliab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
31st Armored Brigade "Centauro"
31 (thirty-one) is the natural number following 30 and preceding 32. It is a prime number. Mathematics 31 is the 11th prime number. It is a superprime and a self prime (after 3, 5, and 7), as no integer added up to its base 10 digits results in 31. It is the third Mersenne prime of the form 2''n'' − 1, and the eighth Mersenne prime ''exponent'', in-turn yielding the maximum positive value for a 32-bit signed binary integer in computing: 2,147,483,647. After 3, it is the second Mersenne prime not to be a double Mersenne prime, while the 31st prime number ( 127) is the second double Mersenne prime, following 7. On the other hand, the thirty-first triangular number is the perfect number 496, of the form 2(5 − 1)(25 − 1) by the Euclid-Euler theorem. 31 is also a ''primorial prime'' like its twin prime ( 29), as well as both a lucky prime and a happy number like its dual permutable prime in decimal ( 13). 31 is the number of regular polygons with an odd number of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armored Division "Centauro"
Armour (Commonwealth English) or armor (American English; see spelling differences) is a covering used to protect an object, individual, or vehicle from physical injury or damage, especially direct contact weapons or projectiles during combat, or from a potentially dangerous environment or activity (e.g. cycling, construction sites, etc.). Personal armour is used to protect soldiers and war animals. Vehicle armour is used on warships, armoured fighting vehicles, and some combat aircraft, mostly ground attack aircraft. A second use of the term ''armour'' describes armoured forces, armoured weapons, and their role in combat. After the development of armoured warfare, tanks and mechanised infantry and their combat formations came to be referred to collectively as "armour". Etymology The word "armour" began to appear in the Middle Ages as a derivative of Old French. It is dated from 1297 as a "mail, defensive covering worn in combat". The word originates from the Old French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armistice Of Cassibile
The Armistice of Cassibile ( Italian: ''Armistizio di Cassibile'') was an armistice that was signed on 3 September 1943 by Italy and the Allies, marking the end of hostilities between Italy and the Allies during World War II. It was made public five days later. It was signed on September 3rd by Major-General Walter Bedell Smith for the Allies and Brigade-General Giuseppe Castellano for Italy. The armistice's signing took place at a summit in an Allied military camp at Cassibile, Sicily, which had recently been occupied by the Allies. The armistice was approved by both Victor Emmanuel III and Marshal Pietro Badoglio, who was serving as Prime Minister of Italy at the time. The signing of the armistice was kept secret on that day, and was announced to the media on September 8th. Nazi Germany responded by attacking Italian forces in Italy, southern France and the Balkans, and freeing Benito Mussolini on 12 September. The Italian forces were forcefully disbanded in the north an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
