Vido

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Vido (Greek: Βίδο) is an island of the Ionian Islands group of Greece. It is a small island (less than kilometer in diameter) at the mouth of Corfu city port.

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During the First World War, the Corfu island served as a refuge for the Serbian army that retreated there by the allied forces ships from the homeland occupied by the Austrians and Bulgarians. During their stay, a large portion of Serbian soldiers died from exhaustion, food shortage, and different diseases. More than 5000 of them were buried at sea near the island of Vido.

A monument of thanks to the Greek Nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs in 1930s.

The waters around Vido island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard (in Serbian, Plava Grobnica), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić after World War I.