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Sv. Petar na Kajmakčalan
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Kajmakčalan

Kajmakčalan

Wikidata identifies Kajmakčalan as Mountain in Greece and North Macedonia.

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Serbian chapel to fallen soldiers on Kajmakčalan peak - 2521 m, place of fierce figthing in autumn of 1916. Peak was most important point in Macedonian front in 1st WW where in 1918 Serbian-French troops made biggest breakthrough which forced Bulgaria to capitulate. After entire Balkan front collapsed, Austro-Hungaria and Turkey (which was cut off from Germa

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Wikidata records Kajmakčalan as Mountain in Greece and North Macedonia.

Serbian chapel to fallen soldiers on Kajmakčalan peak - 2521 m, place of fierce figthing in autumn of 1916. Peak was most important point in Macedonian front in 1st WW where in 1918 Serbian-French troops made biggest breakthrough which forced Bulgaria to capitulate. After entire Balkan front collapsed, Austro-Hungaria and Turkey (which was cut off from German railway supplies) capitulated too. Relicts of fierce figthing can be seen even today, bones, bullets, grenades, bunkers and trenches. Some 40 meters below the chapel is a morgue with skulls and bones found on the mountain.

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