The first sunset of the year 2023 I witnessed in Belgrade, it almost become a tradition. From the fortress Kalemegdan, overlooking the confluence of the…
Timmelsjoch – On the main European water divide
Timmelsjoch is the name of a high (2474 meters above sea level) Alpine Mountain pass exactly on the border between Austria and Italy.wig shop online…
Our newest book is now free to download
In December 2019 the museum of Rudnik and Takovo Region in Gornji Milanovac (Serbia) published our book in Serbian and English language. It is now…
An Austro-Hungarian WWI war monument in Bežanijska Koša (Belgrade)
The border between the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Serbian Kingdom run until 1918 through the Sava and Danube rivers. Bežanija and Zemun (Semlin) were part…
Arius van Tienhoven: Taken to testify / Створене да сведоче / Foto ‘s genomen als getuige
Arius van Tienhoven was a Dutch doctor who served during the Balkan wars and the First World War in several Red Cross missions. During these…
The WWI ship, the Bodrog, which fired the first shots of WWI is restored!
Earlier I wrote (see here) about the famous Austro-Hungarian ship, the Bodrog. The first WWI shots were fired from this ship on the Sava river…
Let’s never forget: Đorđe Vukosavljević, one of the 91 Serbian WWI soldiers who died in the Netherlands
Đorđe Vukosavljević died exactly 100 years around 02h30 AM on 22nd January 1919 in a Prisoners of War camp in Nieuw-Milligen in the municipality of…
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 the country’s history and is…
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 that the First World War…
WWI monument in Kragujevac
Many times I passed the WWI monument in Kragujevac, without even noticing it. I am interested in WWI monuments here in Serbia since we started…