Military Cemetry (Dobrich)

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Military cemetery in Dobrich is one of the few original and completely preserved in nowadays military cemeteries in Bulgaria and on the Balkan Peninsula. The cemetery is a unique monument of culture related to the fights of the town in 1916. Its territory covers more than 10da and thus makes it the biggest one in Bulgaria. More than 3500 buried soldiers there are not grouped depending on their nationality or religion but they were laid in graves just together, not divided in special sectors or plots. This fact makes the cemetery an unique historical monument demonstrating categorically the humanity and the tolerance that citizens from Dobrich proved to have as its founders. In 1922 the people of Dobrudzha, with their own money build an ossuary chapel St. Archangel Michael, iconography by the Dobrich painter Nikola Tahtunov.In the museum you may view the exposition "Dobrich Epic 1916".

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