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Foibe massacres

extrajudicial mass killings of Italian and other local populations in Istria and Dalmatia during and after the Second World War
Event massacre Q1294142
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Summary

Foibe massacres is a massacre[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of massacre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,639 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Kingdom of Italy[3], Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia[4]
  • Instance of: war crime[5], ethnic cleansing[6]
  • Named after: foiba[7]
  • Location: Julian March[8], Kvarner Gulf[9], Dalmatia[10]
  • Part of: World War II[11], Adriatic question[12]
  • Commons category: Foibe massacres[13]
  • Target: Istrian Italians[14], Dalmatian Italians[15]
  • Start time: September 1943[16]
  • Point in time: 1943[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Foibe massacres[18]
  • Number of deaths: 10,000[19], 11,000[20]
  • Depicted by: Monumento alle vittime delle foibe[21]
  • Perpetrator: Yugoslav Partisans[22], OZNA[23]

Why It Matters

Foibe massacres has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Kingdom of Italy Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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