Battle of Nanos

Battle of Nanos
	Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
Date	18 April, 1942
Location	Nanos, Slovene Littoral
Result	Italian victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy	Slovene Partisans
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Janko Premrl
Strength
800	54
Casualties and losses
Unknown	10 Killed; 11 captured

The Battle of Nanos (Slovene: bitka na Nanosu) took place on Nanos

Plateau on 18 April 1942, when 800 Italian soldiers laid siege to 54 Slovene Partisans during World War II. Ten Partisans were killed and eleven

captured, while the rest pierced the ring. This was one of the first battles between the Partisan insurgence in the Slovene Littoral, led by Janko Premrl, and the Italian Army, and was the beginning of the struggle for the western border between the two nations.^[1]

^ "President: WW II Resistance Crucial for Slovenia". English Service: News. Slovenian Press Agency. 25 April 2010. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2012.

[1] "President: WW II Resistance Crucial for Slovenia". English Service: News. Slovenian Press Agency. 25 April 2010. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2012.

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