Google Earth Community: The Monument to the Unknown Hero, Belgrade, Serbia

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The Monument to the Unknown Hero (Serbian: Ð¡Ð¿Ð¾Ð¼ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðº Ð?ÐµÐ·Ð½Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð¼ Ñ˜ÑƒÐ½Ð°ÐºÑƒ Ð½Ð° Ð?Ð²Ð°Ð»Ð¸) is located atop Mt. Avala in Serbia, south-east of the capital, Belgrade, and was designed by the Croatian-American sculptor Ivan MeÅ¡troviÄ‡.Memorial was built on the location of Å½rnov fortress.The construction of this monument was ordered by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, to commemorate the victims of World War I Marked only by the dates 1912-1918. In order to show his support for Yugoslav unity king ordered that this monument include all the nations over which he governed following the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes: Serbs - Å umadinka, Panonka, Crnogorka, Kosovka; Croats - Dalmatinka, Zagorka; one Slovenian and one Macedonian.

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