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The First World War began on 28 July 1914 when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Most of the subsequent Balkan offensives occurred near Belgrade. Austro-Hungarian monitors shelled Belgrade on 29 July 1914, and it was taken by the Austro-Hungarian Army under General Oskar Potiorek on 1 December.
International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Cristina Luna: Brazilian Naval Division for War Operations (DNOG), in: 1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Information about Brazil's participation in the World War I conflict. Archived 2009-03-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
The dominant element of the monument is the statue of the Serbian soldier with a rifle in his hand, ready to defend his country symbolised by the flag sprouting from a rock. Three crosses occurring on the monument – the cross on the top of the flag shaft, the cruciform posture of the statue and the cross in the emblem – are universal ...
Pobednik (Serbian Cyrillic: Победник, lit. 'The Victor') is a monument in the Upper Town of the Belgrade Fortress, built to commemorate Serbia's victory over the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires during the Balkan Wars and the First World War.
Belgrade has received various domestic and international honours, including the French Légion d'honneur (proclaimed 21 December 1920; Belgrade is one of four cities outside France, alongside Liège, Luxembourg and Volgograd, to receive this honour), the Czechoslovak War Cross (awarded 8 October 1925), the Yugoslavian Order of the Karađorđe's ...
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The armistice of Belgrade was an agreement on the termination of World War I hostilities between the Triple Entente and the Kingdom of Hungary concluded in Belgrade on 13 November 1918. It was largely negotiated by General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey , as the commanding officer of the Allied Army of the Orient , and Hungarian Prime Minister ...