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Žrnov

Žrnov Fortress
Тврђава Жрнов
Belgrade
Serbia Serbia
Zrnov1.jpg
Žrnov fortress on Avala near Belgrade, destroyed in 1934
Site information
Condition Demolished
Site history
Built Roman Era
Built by Roman Empire

Žrnov (Serbian Cyrillic: Жрнов) or Žrnovan (Жрнован) was a medieval fortress on the highest top of Avala, at 511 metres (1,677 ft), in Belgrade, Serbia. At the top Ancient Romans built the outpost, and later the Bulgarian and the Serbs expanded it into a fortress.

Ottomans captured the fort, and expanded and strengthened it for preparations of the attack on Belgrade, based on the orders of Sihàb ed-Dîn Pasa, eunuch beylerbey of Rumelia Eyalet. In the city, according to legend dwelt, celebrated in songs, Porča of Avala. The remains of the fortifications was demolished by dynamite in 1934, in order to clear the site for the construction of Mausoleum Monument to the Unknown Hero, whose author was the sculptor Ivan Meštrović.

Coordinates: 44°41′19″N 20°30′57″E / 44.6887°N 20.5158°E / 44.6887; 20.5158


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