Monument to the Unknown Hero
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The Monument to the Unknown Hero is located atop Mt. Avala in Serbia, south-east of the capital, Belgrade, and was designed by the Yugoslav sculptor Ivan Meštrović.
The construction of this monument was ordered by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, to commemorate the victims of World War I, in which more than half the adult male Serbian population was killed. Marked only by the dates 1912-1918, the monument also commemorates those lost in the Balkan Wars (1912, 1913). In order to show his support for Yugoslav unity king ordered that this monument include all the nations over which he governed following the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes: Serbs - Šumadinka, Panonka, Crnogorka, Kosovarka; Croats - Dalmatinka, Zagorka; one Slovenian and one Macedonian ("old Serbian").
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