In Serbia Orthodox Christmas is celebrated according to the Julian calander, 13 days after the Catholic Christmas, which is the 7th January. In Serbian Christmas…
The last train from/to Belgrade….
On a memorial plate in the main railway station of Belgrade you can read: “This building was opened 23rd August 1884 when Belgrade had 35480…
02/11/2017: Presentation at the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On the 2nd November 2017 we were honored to present the results of our research to H.E. Mr. Dačić, the Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister…
The Serbian WWI soldiers from the Gornji Milanovac who died in the Netherlands
“This morning, during a solemn ceremony, 4 Serbian Prisoners of War (PoW) were buried with a military escort. Three of them died in the quarantine…
Ovčar-Kablar : “The Serbian mount Athos”
Yesterday I hiked in the Ovčar-Kalblar gorge with the “Belgrade Foreigners club”. This gorge is located just south of Čačak, a town in Central-Serbia. We…
On this day (28/07/1914): The first bombs on Belgrade, the start of WWI.
On this day, 103 years earlier, the Austro-Hungarian government send a telegram(see below) to the Serbian government with a declaration of war. It was the…
“Ja sam ljut” (I am angry)
I have been living in Serbia since August 2014 and I have to admit I am loving it: the Serbian people are very friendly and…
An unknown Slovak&Czech WWI mass grave in Serbia ?
In December 2016 we published, with the help of the Dutch embassy in Belgrade, a brochure about the “Serbian Soldiers of WWI who died in…
Old steam locomotives sided
The area around the (current) main railway station is in development for the controversial Belgrade Waterfront project. The current station will disappear and new buildings…
Naissus (Niš) at the crossroads of South-East-Europe
Naissus or in modern times Niš is the third largest town in Serbia. It lies on the crossroads of South-East Europe: to the North you…