With this research I would like to present the solidarities on three levels: between soldiers in the field and in the rear between soldiers and civilians and between civilians. ![]() ![]() Because there was only static fighting in fields, the rear of some valleys in Bovec area stayed inhabited. All the evacuated area became to be the new battlefield of Isonzo front, where the front line was brought to standstill until October 1917. ![]() The town Bovec and its surroundings were evacuated in May 1915, most of the inhabitants had to flee inside Austria-Hungary or Italy. This paper presents the events and interactions of solidarities that occurred in the area of upper Soča/Isonzo valley (today northwestern part of Slovenia) through years 1915-1917. Different archaeological approaches provide detailed information on the appearance of conflict landscapes of the Great War in a way that was previously impossible to imagine. In the framework of modern conflict archaeology, different Austro-Hungarian defence systems were identified, ranging from fortified positions built from the end of the nineteenth century, and defensive structures dating to 1914 and early 1915 (before the start of the war in the Soča Valley), to positions on the wartime frontline and reserve defensive lines in the hinterland. Archaeological data supported by LiDAR evidence and historical sources provided an overview of vast pre-war and Great War conflict landscapes in western Slovenia. However, the Soča Front positions were not the only ones associated with the Great War as this article shows. During the conflict, many defence lines on both sides were constructed. Between 19, the frontline of the Soča Front ran across the Julian Alps, the Soča Valley, and the Karst Plateau to the Adriatic Sea. During the Great War, the territory of western Slovenia was the scene of almost two and a half years of heavy fighting between Kingdom of Italy and Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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