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The authorities of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia established many World War II memorials during the country's existence. Several memorial sites were established between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 1970s dedicated to World War II battles, and Nazi concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović, Svetlana Kana Radević and Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number were built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites, and since the Yugoslav Wars and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the sites are mostly abandoned. In Slovenia, World War II Veteran Organisation and its branches yearly hold many comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Souls' Day
All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by Christians on 2 November. In Western Christianity, including Roman Catholicism and certain parts of Lutheranism and Anglicanism, All Souls' Day is the third day of Allhallowtide, after All Saints' Day (1 November) and All Hallows' Eve (31 October). Before the standardization of Western Christian observance on 2 November by St. Odilo of Cluny in the 10th century, many Roman Catholic congregations celebrated All Souls' Day on various dates during the Easter season as it is still observed in the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Eastern Catholic churches and the Eastern Lutheran churches. Churches of the East Syriac Rite (Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church), (Syriac Catholic Church). commemorate all the faithful departed on the Friday before Lent. As with oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav World War II Monuments And Memorials
The authorities of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia established many World War II memorials during the country's existence. Several memorial sites were established between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 1970s dedicated to World War II battles, and Nazi concentration camps, Nazi concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković (sculptor), Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović (architect), Bogdan Bogdanović, Svetlana Kana Radević and Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number were built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites, and since the Yugoslav Wars and the Breakup of Yugoslavia, dissolution of Yugoslavia, the site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian War Memorials
Canadian war memorials are buildings, monuments, and statues that commemorate the armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, the role of the Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian military in conflicts and Canadian peacekeeping, peacekeeping operations, and Canadians who died or were injured in a war. Much of this military history of Canada is commemorated today with war memorial, memorials across the country and around the world. Canadian memorials commemorate the sacrifices made as early as the Seven Years' War to the modern day War on Terror. As Dominion of Newfoundland, Newfoundland was a Dominion, British Dominion until joining Canadian Confederation, Confederation in 1949, there are several monuments in Newfoundland and Labrador and abroad which were dedicated to Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Newfoundland servicemen and women. There are currently 6,293 war memorials in Canada registered with the National Inventory of Military Memorials, which is under the Canadian De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II Memorials And Cemeteries In The Netherlands
During World War II, the Netherlands was the scene of five years of continuous air warfare between the Allied and the Nazis as the Netherlands lies en route from England to Germany and was designated and built up as the foremost line of Nazi air defence of Germany. Also, in 1944 there was heavy land fighting during the largest Allied airborne attack of the WWII in the south and east of the country in 1944–45. Thousands of airmen, soldiers and others of many nations were killed, and their war graves in some 4,000 locations are in the care of the Dutch War Cemetery Organisation (). The Netherlands has over 3,900 cemeteries and memorials, the highest in absolute numbers and in density in the whole of Europe, according to the official national government committee for remembrance. Many of the memorials are dedicated many of the over 3,000 crashed Allied warplanes and their crews. The largest memorial and cemetery is the Netherlands American Cemetery with over 8,000 graves. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Heroes Of Yugoslavia Monuments
The Order of the People's hero of Yugoslavia was awarded to 1,322 individuals in Yugoslavia, and 19 were awarded to foreigners. Many busts and memorials were built in honor of each People's hero. Each of them usually had a bust in his birthplace or at the place of his death. Most of these monuments are built in figurative style, but some of them were completely abstract, e.g. monument of Ivo Lola Ribar, built at Glamoč field in 1962. For the list of monuments of the People's Heroes in the each Republic of Former Yugoslavia, see: * List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina * List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in Croatia * List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in Montenegro * List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in North Macedonia * List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in Serbia * List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in Slovenia See also *Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Monuments And Memorials In Slovenia
List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia represent Yugoslav monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day Slovenia. History The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković (sculptor), Miodrag Živković, Jordan Grabul, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović (architect), Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number was built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites, and since the Yugoslav Wars and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, most of the sites are abandoned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Monuments And Memorials In Serbia
This is a list of monuments and memorials dedicated to the National Liberation Movement (Yugoslavia), National Liberation Movement, its fighters and its victims in the World War II in Yugoslavia, built on the territory of the present day Serbia, including those in the autonomous provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo and Metohija. This list does not include busts or other statues of individuals (#See also, see bottom). History The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković (sculptor), Miodrag Živković, Jordan Grabul, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović (architect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Monuments And Memorials In North Macedonia
The list of World War II monuments and memorials in North Macedonia represents monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present-day North Macedonia during the times of Communist Yugoslavia. History The Communist Yugoslavia, Yugoslav communist authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković (sculptor), Miodrag Živković, Jordan Grabul, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović (architect), Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number was built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites, and since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Monuments And Memorials In Montenegro
List of World War II monuments and memorials in the Montenegro represent Yugoslav monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day Montenegro. See also *People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments *List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials *List of World War II monuments and memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina *List of World War II monuments and memorials in Croatia *List of World War II monuments and memorials in North Macedonia *List of World War II monuments and memorials in Serbia *List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia {{DEFAULTSORT:Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials in Montenegro Lists of monuments and memorials in Montenegro, World War II memorials Lists of World War II monuments and memorials, Montenegro Montenegro in World War II Yugoslav Montenegrin architecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Monuments And Memorials In Croatia
List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials in Croatia represent monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day Croatia in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1991. It does not include busts or other statues of individuals (#See also, see bottom). History The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković (sculptor), Miodrag Živković, Jordan Grabul, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović (architect), Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number was built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World War II Monuments And Memorials In Bosnia And Herzegovina
List of World War II monuments and memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina includes Yugoslav monuments and memorials build on the territory of the present day Bosnia and Herzegovina. History The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković (sculptor), Miodrag Živković, Jordan Grabul, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović (architect), Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number were built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites, and since the Yugoslav Wars and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
