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unusual facts about Gentiana verna


Gentiana verna

It features, in its Latin name, in the eulogy of the Serbian soldiers who died for the liberation of Southern Serbia (now the Republic of Macedonia) from Bulgarians and Austro-Hungarians at the end of World War I, on whose graves in the mountains of Kajmakčalan they grow, written by Stevan Jakovljević, writer and botanist, rector of the Belgrade University in 1945-50.



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