Kolovrat (, ) is a mountain ridge of the Julian Prealps on the border between

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

and

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, west of

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and southeast of

Kobarid Kobarid (; ; ; ) is a settlement in Slovenia, the administrative centre of the Municipality of Kobarid. Kobarid is known for the 1917 Battle of Caporetto, where the Italian retreat was documented by Ernest Hemingway in his novel '' A Farewell t ...

. It is a geographical border between the

Soča Soča (, in Slovene) or Isonzo (, in Italian; other names: ; ; or ') is a long river that flows through western Slovenia () and northeastern Italy (). An Alpine river in character, its source lies in the Trenta Valley in the Julian Alps ...

Valley in Slovenia and the

Venetian Slovenia Slavia Friulana, which means Friulian Slavia (), is a small mountainous region in northeastern Italy and it is so called because of its Slavic population which settled here in the 8th century AD. The territory is located in the Italian region of ...

region of Italy. It extends about 7 km at an elevation between 800 and 1150 m. There are two roads on the ridge, one from the Italian side, accessible from

Drenchia Drenchia (; ) is a (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about north of Trieste and about northeast of Udine, on the border with Slovenia. Drenchia is located on ...

, and one from the Slovenian side, accessible from the villages of Livek and Volče. Between the 15th and late 18th centuries, the Kolovrat Ridge used to be the border between the

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and the

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. Between 1866 and 1918, the border between the

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and Italy also ran along the same line. Between 1947 and 1991, it was the border between Italy and

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. In October and November 1917, it was an important site in the

Battle of Caporetto The Battle of Kobarid (also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, the Battle of Caporetto or the Battle of Karfreit) took place on the Italian front of World War I. The battle was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Central P ...

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Ridges of Slovenia Mountain ranges of Italy Landforms of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy–Slovenia border Mountain ranges of the Alps Mountains of the Slovene Littoral {{FriuliVeneziaGiulia-geo-stub

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