The most significant victory of Serbia in World War I happened 103 years ago: Honor to the brave soldiers of the battle of Kolubara

103 year anniversary of the Kolubara battle will be marked today by lying down wreaths and with honoring of the event.

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State ceremony will be led by State Secretary at the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans' Affairs and Social Affairs Negovan Stankovic, the government's Office for Cooperation with the Media said yesterday.

An art program will be organized in the Memorial church at the ceremony in the crypt where over 40.000 Serbian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers are buried.

The honoring of this significant historical event will continue today in the continuation of the program near the Monument of the Serbian warrior in the Center of Lazarevac.

The organizer of the national ceremony is the Government Committee for Caring for the Traditions of the Liberation Wars of Serbia in cooperation with the Municipality of Lazarevac.

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Wreaths will be also placed by the delegation of the Defence Ministry and the Serbian Army, the president of the municipality of Lazarevac, representatives of the embassies of Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the Republic of Serbia, numerous municipalities, NGOs defined for cultivating the traditions of Serbia's liberation wars and others.

The Kolubara battle is not only the greatest allied victory achieved in 1914, but it is also a textbook example of a skillful strategic action of the fewer and less equipped armed forces who were defending and who managed to avert it into a quick and sudden offensive action.

Tactics applied by General Zivojin Misic presents the unique example of the military-strategic turn which brought the most significant victory in World War I to the almost defeated army.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)