When Serbia renovated streets with material taken from Albanian tombstones and graveyards

When Serbia renovated streets with material taken from Albanian tombstones and graveyards

Petrit Latifi

In 1913, after the Serbian invasion of Albanian villages in Macedonia, Serbian authorities began plundering Albanian graveyards and tombstones in order to collect material to renovate streets in occupied cities. In a telegram titled “EMBS Vice-Consul Peckham to Ralph Paget 3th February 1913” we can read the following:

“The British consul in Üsküp, Peckham, reported to Ralph Paget that the new Serbian administration had obtained the material for the renovation of the streets from the tombstones of the local Muslim cemetery.”

References

https://edit.elte.hu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10831/34808/Ingenia_Hungarica_II_Balatoni_Balazs_p_81-114.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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