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Συμμαχικά κοιμητήρια Ζέιτενλικ
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Συμμαχικά κοιμητήρια Ζέιτενλικ

Θεσσαλονίκη, Grecia
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Zeitenlik (Greek: Ζέιτενλικ, Serbian Cyrillic: Зејтинлик) is an Allied military cemetery and World War I memorial park in Thessaloniki, the largest military cemetery in Greece. It contains the graves of circa 20,000 Serbian, French, British, Italian, Russian and Greek soldiers and Bulgarian POWs, who died in the battles on the Salonika front during World War I. The largest part of the complex is the Serbian Military Graveyard, which contains the remains of c. 7,500 soldiers. The French sector contains the remains of 8,000 French soldiers. The Italian sector holds about 3,000 graves; the British sector holds about 2,000 graves, and there is also the Russian sector with about 400 graves. There are also graves of Bulgarian POWs, such as graves of fallen Greeks transferred from the battlefields of Kilkis. The complex is located on the place where the Main Hospital of the Serbian Army was loc

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