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Foibe massacres

September 1943

Extrajudicial mass killings of Italian and other local populations in Istria and Dalmatia during and after the Second World War. It took place in September 1943 in what is now Italy. The setting was Julian March and Kvarner Gulf. It was part of the World War II and Adriatic question. About 11,000 people died.

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