Yiannoulis (Janulisa) St. in Belgrade - Corfu Mayor at official naming ceremony
Serbian Army
06 Nov 2018
/ 09:23
CORFU. Yiannis Yiannoulis from Ai Mathia was honoured by the Municipality of Belgrade for his humanitarian contribution to the Serbian Army in the First World War.
Corfu Mayor Kostas Nikolouzos visited Belgrade last week on the invitation of the local Mayor Zoran Radojičić to attend the official naming ceremony of a road in Voždovac, Belgrade - with the name Yiannis Yiannoulis (Janisa Janulisa). Yiannoulis was honoured in Belgrade for his humanitarian contribution to the Serbian Army in the First World War.
Yiannis Yiannoulis
He is remembered as one of the local Corfiots who bravely gave humanitarian assistance to the Serbs in 1916. Yiannoulis was a simple farmer from Ai Mathia who gave his land for the burial of Serbian soldiers even though the harvest from the land was his sole income. What was especially notable was that even in 1939 when the bodies were transferred to the Mausoleum on Vidos Island he refused to cultivate the land. A monument was later built in his honour in Ai Mathia.
Belgrade ceremony
The naming ceremony took place on Wednesday 31 October as part of a series of events - "Days of Liberation" - in remembrance of the liberation of Belgrade in the First World War.
Mr. Nikolouzos met with the Belgrade Mayor Zoran Radojičić at the Town Hall and laid a wreath at the Defenders of Belgrade ossuary. He also attended a ceremony at the Union of Descendants of Serbian Fighters 1912 - 1920.
See more photos here.
Yiannis Yiannoulis
He is remembered as one of the local Corfiots who bravely gave humanitarian assistance to the Serbs in 1916. Yiannoulis was a simple farmer from Ai Mathia who gave his land for the burial of Serbian soldiers even though the harvest from the land was his sole income. What was especially notable was that even in 1939 when the bodies were transferred to the Mausoleum on Vidos Island he refused to cultivate the land. A monument was later built in his honour in Ai Mathia.
Belgrade ceremony
The naming ceremony took place on Wednesday 31 October as part of a series of events - "Days of Liberation" - in remembrance of the liberation of Belgrade in the First World War.
Mr. Nikolouzos met with the Belgrade Mayor Zoran Radojičić at the Town Hall and laid a wreath at the Defenders of Belgrade ossuary. He also attended a ceremony at the Union of Descendants of Serbian Fighters 1912 - 1920.
See more photos here.
