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    Albania. The town's name was officially changed to the old Italian San Giovanni di Medua during World War II. After the war, the town's name reverted once...
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  • known as San Giovanni de Medua San-Giovanni-di-Moriani, a municipality of the Haute-Corse department, Corsica Municipalities Borgo San Giovanni, in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Impetuoso (1913)
    lighthouses at the Cape of Rodon and Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) on the coast of the Principality of Albania. On 3 December 1915...
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    evacuation started on 15 January; the journey was made from three ports, San Giovanni di Medua, Durrës and Valona (Vlorë). Altogether, 45 Italian, 25 French and...
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    and Ulcinj served as ports for Shkodër, and, later on, Shëngjin (San Giovanni di Medua). The Jesuit seminary and the Franciscan committee were opened in...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Insidioso
    lighthouses at the Cape of Rodon and Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) on the coast of the Principality of Albania. On 3 December 1915...
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    December and performed reconnaissance off the Albanian coast and San Giovanni di Medua. They sank an Italian picket boat, three steamships loaded with...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Irrequieto
    lighthouses at the Cape of Rodon and Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) on the coast of the Principality of Albania. In the early hours...
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    Serbian army to the Adriatic coast, reaching the small port of San Giovanni di Medua. Troubridge was rescued by the Italian Royal Navy and contributed...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Indomito (1912)
    lighthouses at the Cape of Rodon and Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) on the coast of the Principality of Albania. On 22 November 1915...
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  • fatigued soldiers who survived the exhausting withdrawal to reach San Giovanni di Medua in summer 1915. Divisional General Ivan Pavlović (1869-1943), the...
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    landing at San Giovanni di Medua on the Albanian coast. The French submarine Cugnot slipped between the protective minefields outside the Bocche di Cattaro...
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    to Boško Čolak-Antić. With the Serbian Government: From Niš to San Giovanni di Medua 20 October 1915 — 14 February 1916. A witness account (in French)...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Pilade Bronzetti
    at Austro-Hungarian-occupied Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) in Albania. The incursion was unsuccessful: MAS 5 and MAS 7 found...
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    offloading Serbian troops (bound from Salonika) in the port of San Giovanni di Medua, Albania. She managed to sink or heavily damage six Greek ships...
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  • lighthouses at the Cape of Rodon and Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) on the coast of the Principality of Albania. In the early hours...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Audace (1913)
    lighthouses at the Cape of Rodon and Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) on the coast of Albania. On 11 July 1915 Audace, Ardito, Animoso...
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    off Durazzo. On 19 October, 96 escorted two coastal steamers to San Giovanni di Medua in Albania and Antivari in Montenegro, accompanied by 76, 87, 89...
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  • at Austro-Hungarian-occupied Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) in Albania. The incursion was unsuccessful: MAS 5 and MAS 7 found...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Rosolino Pilo
    at Austro-Hungarian-occupied Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) in Albania. The incursion was unsuccessful: MAS 5 and MAS 7 found...
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  • Stefano di Tinea Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat San Giovanni Capoferrato Saint-Léger San Laugerio, San Leggero Saint-Martin-d'Entraunes San Martino d'Entraune, San Martino...
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  • December. A further two days march was required to get to the port of San Giovanni di Medua (Shëngjin), and from there by ship the troops were sent to Brindsi...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Ardente
    lighthouses at the Cape of Rodon and Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) on the coast of the Principality of Albania. On 11 July 1915 Ardente...
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  • Adriatic out of Cattaro, calling at the Albanian ports of Durazzo and San Giovanni di Medua. Continuing this same duty into August, U-32 was forced to crash...
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    Italian cruiser Marco Polo (category Ships built in Castellammare di Stabia)
    destroyers stopped an Austro-Hungarian ship on 5 October in the bay at San Giovanni di Medua, Albania, and when they sent a boat to board the merchant ship,...
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  • lighthouses at the Cape of Rodon and Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni di Medua) on the coast of Albania. On 11 July 1915 Ardito, Animoso, Ardente...
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  • Thumbnail for Guardia alla Frontiera
    (in Italian) Anche se non ufficialmente previsti settori GaF nel territorio di Zara, un provvedimento del governo del 1939 considera le truppe stanziate...
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  • Albania Valona, Vlora Ionian Sea 130,827 Albanian Shëngjin Albania San Giovanni Medua Adriatic Sea 10,500 Albanian Sarandë Albania Santi Quaranta, Sarandë...
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    Austro-Hungarian coastal artillery at Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni de Medua). On 2 October 1918, while other British and Italian ships bombarded...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Carabiniere (1909)
    mail steamer in the harbor at Shëngjin (known to the Italians as San Giovanni de Medua) on the coast of Albania came under fire from field guns in an earthwork...
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