page_title: Bača pri Modreju
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bača pri Modreju / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A postcard of village Bača pri Modreju and the railway viaduct, sent 28. february 1915. Slovenščina: Razglednica Bače pri Modreju z železniškim viaduktom, poslana 28. februarja 1915.
context_page_description: Bača pri Modreju is a village in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It lies at the confluence of the Bača River with the Idrijca River, which in turn joins the Soča River at Most na Soči, northwest of the settlement. The village includes the hamlets of Grapa, Stopec, and Sopotnica.
context_section_description: In 1888 the archaeologists Carlo de Marchesetti and Josef Szombathy discovered 23 urn graves with objects from the Hallstatt culture in Bača pri Modreju. The finds are kept at the museums in Vienna and Trieste. During the Middle Ages, the counts of Tolmin had a toll house in the village. There are two abandoned sawmills along the Bača River in the settlement; one was established in 1544. During the First World War, the Austrians built a memorial to their soldiers in the southwest part of the settlement, along the main road next to the railway bridge directly opposite the settlement of Postaja. The inscription reads "Hier kämpfte das XV. Korps. Mai 1915 : Oktober 1917" (The 15th Corps fought here. May 1915–October 1917). After Italy assumed control of the area, the Italians added the inscription "Venne il di nostro – ottobre 1918" (Our day arrived: October 1918).
caption: Postcard of Bača and the Bača Viaduct, 1915
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