The Dodecanese campaign was the capture and occupation of the Dodecanese islands by German forces during World War II. Following the signing of the Armistice...
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The Dodecanese (UK: /ˌdoʊdɪkəˈniːz/, US: /doʊˌdɛkəˈniːz/; Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa [ðoðeˈkanisa], lit. 'twelve islands'; Turkish: On iki Ada) are...
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Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II (redirect from African Campaign of World War II)
unconditional surrender to the Allies on 2 May 1945. The brief campaign in the Italian-held Dodecanese Islands resulted as both Germany and the Allies scrambled...
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Italian Islands of the Aegean (redirect from Italian Dodecanese)
Ege'deki İtalyan Adaları) were an archipelago of fourteen islands (the Dodecanese, except Kastellorizo) in the southeastern Aegean Sea, that—together with...
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Inigo Campioni (category Dodecanese under Italian rule)
Calabria Battle of Taranto Operation White Battle of Cape Spartivento Dodecanese Campaign Admirals' Trial "Headlines: Error Page". www.historyandtheheadlines...
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story takes place within the real historical context of the 1943 Dodecanese campaign. The Guns of Navarone brings together elements that would characterise...
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occupy the Italian-held Dodecanese, but they and their Italian allies were defeated in a short campaign (see Dodecanese Campaign). Throughout late 1943...
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Italian colonists were settled in the Dodecanese Islands of the Aegean Sea in the 1930s by the Fascist Italian government of Benito Mussolini, Italy having...
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Battle of Kos (category Dodecanese campaign)
forces for control of the Greek island of Kos, in the then Italian-held Dodecanese Islands of the Aegean Sea. The battle was precipitated by the Allied Armistice...
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Battle of Rhodes (1943) (category Dodecanese campaign)
for the control of Rhodes, a Greek island in the Italian (1912–1943) Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea. The Italian authorities in Rome had been negotiating...
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