21.09.2018.
The Day of Remembrance of the Serbian and Greek soldiers perished in the First World War
Delegation of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces, led by Lieutenant General Milosav Simović, Army Commander, laid a wreath at the Memorial to Serbian soldiers who were killed in the First World War at the Greek military cemetery during the First World War in Pirot, marking the Day of Remembrance of the Serbian and Greek soldiers perished in the First World War.
The wreaths were laid by Negovan Stanković, State Secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs who led the wreath-laying and honouring ceremony, representatives of the Municipality of Pirot, the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the Republic of Serbia, military attachés of Great Britain, France, Cyprus and representatives of associations and citizens committed to cultivating the traditions of the liberation wars of Serbia.The only Greek military cemetery in Serbia since the First World War is located on the hill Metljavica near Pirot. At the cemetery, 358 Greek soldiers and officers who died in late 1918 and early 1919 due to severe winter conditions, were buried. Their bones were scattered around the area of Pirot until 1923, when the Serbian daughter-in-law Katarina Levandis, who was married to the Serbian soldier a native Pirot citizen, collected their remains and placed them in the tombs. The largest number of dead Greek people buried at Metljavica was from Patras, Peloponnese. In the immediate vicinity of the cemetery there is a monument devoted to the 7,610 Pirot people who were also killed in the First World War.
