20.09.2019.
The Day of Remembrance of the Serbian and Greek soldiers perished in World War I
Commemorating the Day of Remembrance of Serbian and Greek soldiers perished in World War I, a delegation of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces led by State Secretary Aleksandar Živković has laid a wreath at the Monument to Serbian Soldiers killed in World War I, within the Greek military cemetery from the period of the Great War in Pirot, today.
The wreaths were laid also by Svetozar Aleksov, State Secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs, who led the wreath-laying and honouring ceremony, representatives of the embassies of the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Cyprus, Municipality of Pirot, military attachés of other countries and associations cherishing the traditions of Serbia's liberation wars.The only Greek military cemetery in Serbia since the World War I is located on the Metljavica hill near Pirot. At the cemetery, 358 Greek soldiers and officers who died in late 1918 and early 1919 were buried. Their remains were collected and placed in the tombs in 1923, by the Serbian daughter-in-law Katarina Levandis. Most of the Greeks killed at Metljavica were from Patras on the Peloponnese.
In the immediate vicinity of the cemetery there is a monument devoted to the 7,610 people of Pirot who were also killed in the Great War.
