Monument to the Unknown Hero
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| Monument to the Unknown Hero |
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| Serbia | |
 Monument to the Unknown Hero Споменик Незнаном јунаку на Авали |
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| For World War I, Balkan Wars | |
| Unveiled | 1938 |
| Location | near Belgrade |
| Designed by | Ivan Meštrović |
The Monument to the Unknown Hero (Serbian: Споменик Незнаном јунаку на Авали) is located atop Mt. Avala in Serbia, south-east of the capital, Belgrade, and was designed by the Croatian-American sculptor Ivan Meštrović.
Memorial was built on the location of Žrnov fortress.
The construction of this monument was ordered by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, to commemorate the victims of World War I 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, Kosovka; Croats - Dalmatinka, Zagorka; one Slovenian and one Macedonian.
