The Austro-Hungarian cemetery of Gorjansko on the Carso Plateau is considered the best preserved World War One cemetery in Slovenia. Buried in it are men from a wide number of nationalities who died at the nearby hospital. Its striking monument was completed in 1916 while the war in the area still raged. Some of the stone crosses and marble plates have been stolen over the years, but the site retains its wartime look. A number of the fallen were exhumed in the 1930s, but at least 6,015 are still interred at the cemetery in individual or mass graves. Probably because of the great variety of religions that were represented in the Dual Empire's forces, there is an assortment of styles for the grave markers.
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Thank you for another article on the Austro-Hungarian forces!
ReplyDeleteSeeing these photos makes me really appreciate the American Battle Monumennts Commision