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Gothic Line (Italy)

LC control no.sh2010012200
Geographic headingGothic Line (Italy)
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Geographic subdivision usageItaly--Gothic Line
Variant(s)Goten Linie (Italy)
Goten Stellung (Italy)
Gotenlinie (Italy)
Gotenstellung (Italy)
Gotica, Linea (Italy)
Green Line (Italy)
Grüne Linie (Italy)
Linea gotica (Italy)
Linea verde (Italy)
Pisa-Rimini Line (Italy)
Verde, Linea (Italy)
See alsoFortification--Italy
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Found inWork cat.: 2010412695: Braschi, E. Lavoravo alla Todt, c2010: t.p. (Linea gotica)
Ox. companion to the Second World War, 1995 (Gothic Line: series of German defences in the Apennnines held during the Italian compaign. It was thus named in Apr. 1944, but two months later Hitler changed its name to the Green Line. The Allies called it the Pisa-Rimini line, though it actually ran from north of Lucca on the west coast to south of Pesaro on the east coast of Italy. The Allies broke through it in Sept. 1944)
Wikipedia (Italian), viewed July 12, 2010 (Linea gotica ... after [Allied] breakthrough in summer of 1944, known as the Linea verde)
Wikipedia (German), viewed July 12, 2010: Gotenstellung article (Gotenstellung was the German name of the fortified line ... from Massa-Carrara to Pesaro ... in the summer of 1944 it became known as the Grüne Linie)
Google Books search, July 12, 2010 (other forms found: Goten Stellung, Goten Linie, Gotenlinie)