Serbia’s Wartime History Lies Buried on Mountain
Many Serbs still guard the memory of the Battle of Kajmakcalan, in September 1916, which marked a turning point in…
Category: History
The 100th anniversary of the end of WWI: unknown stories from Serbia
On the 11/11/2018 Serbia commemorate, with its allies (France, UK, USA, Italy, Belgium etc.), that it was 100 years ago…
Morning walk through Kalemegdan
This morning I had to walk through Kalemegdan, the old fortress of Belgrade, on my way to my office. Definitely…
Destruction of railway heritage in Serbia
Yesterday the Serbian media reported (read here the news report in English from B92) that vandals damaged old steam locomotives…
An old railway carriage with a glorious past (or not)…..
Last Saturday I went to our train model club (Klub ljubitelja železnice Beograd) were we have a old Slovenian post…
The first victim of WWI: Dušan Đonović
In the night of 28/29th July 1914 the first shots of the First World War were fired by the Austro-Hungarian…
“Belgrad, ici Belgrad”
“Belgrad, ici (=here) Belgrad”, you hear in the James Bond movie “From Russia with love”, when the most famous British…
“Hier ruhen Serbischen helden”
On a monument in a forgotten corner of Košutnjak park in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is written in “Hier…
Living on the border of the European Union: Kenđija in Serbia
Last weekend I was with friends in Kenđija, located in the Northwestern part of Serbia, where Serbia meets Hungary and…