BETAPHOTO/Ministarstvo za rad, zaposljavanje, boracka i socijalna pitanja/Katarina Mihajlovic
Nov. 11, Armistice Day, which remembers the anniversary of the Nov. 11, 1918 truce on the Western Front that ushered in the end of World War I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, on June 28, 1919, was commemorated in Serbia.
Armistice Day, which became a state, nonworking holiday in Serbia in 2012, is celebrated in Great Britain, Belgium, New Zealand and France, as "Remembrance Day" in the countries of the Commonwealth and as "Veterans Day" in the U.S.
In Serbia, the symbol of Armistice Day is the Ramonda Nathaliae, an endangered species of plant that grows in eastern Serbia and on Mt. Kajmakcalan, where the Serbian army led by Voivode Zivojin Misic fought a fierce battle with the Bulgarians during preparations for the Salonica Front breakthrough.
In Belgrade, a state ceremony led by Minister of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Milica Djurdjevic Stamenkovski began at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Ossuary to the Defenders of Belgrade. Belgrade City officials laid wreaths at the French Military Cemetery, while Serbian Prime Minister Djuro Macut laid a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mt. Avala.
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