Enrico Tellini was an Italian

Italy

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 General whose assassination provoked the Corfu incident

Corfu incident

The Corfu Incident was a 1923 diplomatic crisis between the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Italy.-Background:There was a boundary dispute between Greece and Albania. The two nations took their dispute to the Conference of Ambassadors. The Conference of Ambassadors created a commission to...

 of 1923.

Biography

Enrico Tellini was born in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana

Castelnuovo di Garfagnana

Castelnuovo di Garfagnana is a town and comune in the province of Lucca, Toscana, central Italy. It is located at rises at the confluence of the Serchio and the Turrite Secca river, close to the intersection among the roads passing through the Apennine Mountains and the Apuane Alps.The local...

 in the province of Lucca

Province of Lucca

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 in Tuscany

Tuscany

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. After a childhood in Florence

Florence

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 and enlistment in the Italian army

Italian Army

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 he enrolled in classes at a local military college in Florence. In 1901 he was promoted to the rank of major. He participated in the Italo-Turkish War

Italo-Turkish War

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 and during the First World War took part in the battle of Caporetto

Battle of Caporetto

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Assassination

In 1923 Tellini was part of a team of Italians sent by the League of Nations

League of Nations

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 to survey the disputed border between Greece

Greece

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 and Albania

Albania

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. He was shot and killed, presumably by Greek Bandits, along with three companions, when the car he was driving in was stopped by a fallen tree across the road that ran along the disputed border near the town of Yannina. Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

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 demanded 50 million lira

Lira

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 in reparations from Greece and the execution of the assassins. On August 31, 1923 Italian troops occupied Corfu

Corfu

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 in the Corfu incident

Corfu incident

The Corfu Incident was a 1923 diplomatic crisis between the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Italy.-Background:There was a boundary dispute between Greece and Albania. The two nations took their dispute to the Conference of Ambassadors. The Conference of Ambassadors created a commission to...

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