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The great retreat is considered by Serbs to be one of the greatest tragedies in their nation's history. [7] It is remembered, using biblical symbolism, as the Albanian Golgotha, a sacred sacrifice followed by the national 'resurrection' of Serbia's victory at the end of the war.
) or Commemorative Medal of the Great Serbian Retreat, better known as the Albanian Commemorative Medal (Serbian: Албанска споменица, romanized: Albanska spomenica) was a single-classed military medal awarded to all Serbian military personnel who participated in the Great Serbian Retreat of World War I. [2]
After Serbia successfully resisted Austria-Hungary's advances during the Serbian campaign of 1914, the Central Powers launched a joint offensive against Serbia with a combined force of over 600,000 soldiers. They enjoyed numerical and technological superiority over the Serbian army, which was heavily outnumbered and lacked adequate supplies and ...
Jean Aitken Bell (1882 – 1957) was a Scottish nurse who served with Dr. Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in Serbia.She was among those who were given medals by both Britain and Serbia for war services, including enduring the dangerous winter mountain Serbian retreat, taking their injured patients over the mountains in winter to safety; she served July to December ...
Peter I during the Great Retreat. The reign of Peter I, from 1903 to 1914, is remembered [by whom?] as the "Golden Age of Serbia", due to the unrestricted political freedoms, free press, and cultural ascendancy among South Slavs who finally saw in democratic Serbia a Piedmont of South Slavs. [26]
The fall of Niš had a huge psychological impact on both of fighting sides: Serbians were forced to continue in their Great Retreat, for Central Powers the victory ment removing the last obstacle for operating the Berlin–Baghdad railway, [1] the shortest railway connection between Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
During the Great Retreat of the first World War, Serbian soldiers retreating through Macedonia began to march to Peshkopia, despite them allegedly guaranteeing to not attack Albanian populated land. They were attacked by Albanian Dibrans and were swiftly defeated in battle.
English: Below: In the face of an overwhelming attack by armies from three countries, rather than surrender, the entire Serb Army along with the King and a large number of civilians, conduct a perilous retreat westward through the steep snowy mountains into Albania, where they will seek Allied assistance and wait to fight another day.