Sabotin ( it, Sabotino, fur, Mont di San Valantin) is mountain ridge overlooking

Gorizia Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label=Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Goritz ...

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, and

Solkan Solkan ( or ; it, Salcano, german: link=no, Sollingen or ''Salcano'') is a settlement in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in the Gorizia region of western Slovenia, at the border with Italy. Although it forms a single urban area with the city of ...

on the border between Slovenia and Italy. At its foot stands the Solkan Bridge spanning the

Soča River The Soča ( in Slovene) or Isonzo ( in Italian; other names fur, Lusinç, german: Sontig, la, Aesontius or ') is a long river that flows through western Slovenia () and northeastern Italy (). An Alpine river in character, its source lies i ...

Name

The mountain was first attested in written sources circa 1370 as ''Saluatin''. The name is of unclear origin. Based on the oldest transcriptions of the name, it can be derived from ''*Salbotin'', based on the Latin personal name ''Salvus'' (literally, 'healthy'). Another possibility (assuming that the old transcriptions are wrong) is that the name was originally ''Sabotin'', based on the Italian name ''Sàb(b)ato'', originally given to a child born on a Saturday. A third possibility is that it is derived from ''*San Valentin'' (there is a church dedicated to

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on the mountain) through a number of unexpected phonological changes.

History

Sabotin represented an important defence point defending Gorizia during the Soča/Isonzo offensives. It was defended by the Austro-Hungarian 58th division.

Pietro Badoglio Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino (, ; 28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956), was an Italian general during both World Wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa. With the fall of the Fascist regime ...

assigned general Giuseppe Venturi's 45th division to capture Sabotin in the

Sixth Battle of the Isonzo The Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, better known as the Battle of Gorizia, was the most successful Italian offensive along the Soča (Isonzo) River during World War I. Background Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf had reduced the Austro-Hungarian for ...

. On 6 August 1916, after a brief and bloody battle, the mountain was captured by the Italians.

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* {{Authority control Mountains of the Slovene Littoral Mountains under 1000 metres