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WAR RELICS pt11 // PHONETIC ALPHABET

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In the early 1830s, the Austrian Empire started building fortifications in the bay of Boka Kotorska in today's Montenegro.
By the beginning of WW1, it was the second largest naval base of Austria-Hungary on the Adriatic Sea.
It had some 86 forts with 3.500 troops in permanent fortress garrisons with 218 fortress cannons from 37 to 305 mm caliber.
Altogether, there were around 36.000 troops and 6.700 horses.
To supply such a huge base, the Austri-Hungary High Command decided to build a railway connecting Sarajevo with a bay of Boka Kotorska in 1898.
The railway was finished in July of 1901.
The railway route ran through the Konavle region in today's Croatia.
To secure the railway from the possible enemy landings in the region, particularly in the town of Cavtat, Austria-Hungary built an outpost above the town from which they could prevent a possible enemiy's breakthrough on the railway and further to the base.
That didn't prevent Entante cruisers to bomb the area by the beginning of the WW1.
I don't have any evidence that the position was used by Wehrmacht during WW2.
When the War of Croatian Independence started, Sebian-Montenegrin troops commenced operation in this area in October 1991.
From May 1992. In October of the same year, Serbian troops would begin to use old Austria-Hungary positions, fortifications, and trench systems, thus controlling the approach to the Konavle region from the west.
What surprised me the most was that I found 111 an old Russian cartridge casing produced in the Lugansk Cartridge Factory.
The second great finding was a Yugoslav-made field phone M63 or rather, its lid with a very well-preserved phonetic alphabet on it.
The view of the Adriatic Sea and the city of Dubrovnik was magnificent.
By the beginning of WW1, it was the second largest naval base of Austria-Hungary on the Adriatic Sea.
It had some 86 forts with 3.500 troops in permanent fortress garrisons with 218 fortress cannons from 37 to 305 mm caliber.
Altogether, there were around 36.000 troops and 6.700 horses.
To supply such a huge base, the Austri-Hungary High Command decided to build a railway connecting Sarajevo with a bay of Boka Kotorska in 1898.
The railway was finished in July of 1901.
The railway route ran through the Konavle region in today's Croatia.
To secure the railway from the possible enemy landings in the region, particularly in the town of Cavtat, Austria-Hungary built an outpost above the town from which they could prevent a possible enemiy's breakthrough on the railway and further to the base.
That didn't prevent Entante cruisers to bomb the area by the beginning of the WW1.
I don't have any evidence that the position was used by Wehrmacht during WW2.
When the War of Croatian Independence started, Sebian-Montenegrin troops commenced operation in this area in October 1991.
From May 1992. In October of the same year, Serbian troops would begin to use old Austria-Hungary positions, fortifications, and trench systems, thus controlling the approach to the Konavle region from the west.
What surprised me the most was that I found 111 an old Russian cartridge casing produced in the Lugansk Cartridge Factory.
The second great finding was a Yugoslav-made field phone M63 or rather, its lid with a very well-preserved phonetic alphabet on it.
The view of the Adriatic Sea and the city of Dubrovnik was magnificent.
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