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RE: Around The World: Challenge - #33/4

in Liketu5 months ago

Beskid Niski Mts (a 100km long range along PL/SK border) is dotted with WWI cemeteries. It witnessed fronts moving west and the east. After Russian had been pushed out of the northern Carpathians, the then Austro-Hungarian empire took a tremendous effort to commemorate the fallen from both armies. Since Austro-Hungary was a multi-national country, we will find German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovak and even Italian names on the graves. Today, the 400+ war cemeteries are within the borders of Poland. Some small and nearly forgotten. Some hidden in the mountains, some in well visible places. It's a heritage that we in Central Europe should remember.

WWI Cemetery on Mt Rotunda - Beskid Niski Mts, Poland

Full story (in Polish) in https://beskidy.truvvl.blog/dwa-zimowe-spacery-w-beskidzie-niskim-jawor-z-wysowej-i-rotunda-z-regietowa-na-deser-luzna-pustki

It's worth browsing thru the post even if you cannot read in Polish (but hey - there are we translators!) - you will find photos from 4 of the WWI cemeteries.

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Thanks for the link.
I "run through the translator" in Polish only when I want to write something :-)