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6 unusual facts about Serbian Army


Alojz Mahek

However, on July 15, 1914, with the start of the First World War, all Serbian clubs ceased their activities, and most players were conscripted to the Serbian Army.

Cepotina

Jug (Serbian for south) or Cepotina (after a nearby hill) is a Serbian Army base located 5 kilometres south of Bujanovac.

Nadežda Petrović

With the outbreak of World War I she again volunteered to become a nurse with the Serbian Army, eventually dying of typhus on 3 April 1915.

She immediately returned to Belgrade to assist the Serbian Army.

Serbian army's retreat through Albania

In order to investigate the crimes, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace formed a special commission, which was sent to the Balkans in 1913.

On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia.


Belgrade Prophetologion

It disappeared during evacuation and retreat of the Serbian Army in the Balkan Wars in 1915.


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Battle of Kosturino

French forces under the command of General Maurice Sarrail advanced deep into Serbian territory with the intent of reaching the Serbian Army at Niš.

Gani Bey Kryeziu


Gani grew up in Serbia, attended a military academy in Sarajevo, and served in the Serbian army in early '20s, as well as aide-de-camp for Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and for a short time in Albania during 1925 after the June Revolution and Zogu coming into power.

Justin Popović

On January 8, 1915, he resumed his duties sharing the destiny of the Serbian army, passing a path of Golgotha from Peć to Shkodër (along which one hundred thousand Serbian soldiers died) where on January 1, 1916 he entered the monastic order in the Orthodox cathedral of Shkodër and took the name of St. Justin, after the great Christian philosopher and martyr for Christ, St. Justin the Philosopher.

Monument to the Unknown Hero

Several prominent historians from Belgrade and Sarajevo have claimed that the unknown hero is a Bosniak named Sulejman Balić, a soldier from Duga Poljana, a town between Novi Pazar and Sjenica, that fought in the Serbian army against Austria-Hungary.

Ovče Pole Offensive

The main blow was at Kumanovo where the Bulgarian 3rd and 7th divisions easily defeated the Serbian army.

Ramonda nathaliae

The flower is well known on the Nidze mountain near Bitola in Macedonia, where at Kajmakchalan peak, in the World War I battle of Kajmakchalan, the Serbian Army suffered a loss of nearly 5,000 soldiers before they were victorious against the Bulgarian Army.

Svetomir Đukić

Svetomir Đukić (29 May 1882 - 19 October 1960) was founder of Olympic Committee of Serbia,officer in Serbian Army and general in the Chetnik movement.