Wikiloc | LL Rajac longest trail

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Siberian wolf

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Distance: 14.41 mi
Elevation gain: 2,589 ft
Technical difficulty: Easy
Elevation loss: 2,589 ft
Max elevation: 2,847 ft
TrailRank: 41
Min elevation: 1,791 ft
Trail type: Loop

Moving time: 5 hours 42 minutes
Time: 7 hours 17 minutes
Coordinates: 4082
Uploaded: October 2, 2023
Recorded: October 2023

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near Polom, Central Serbia (Serbia)

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Itinerary description

An ideal day and an opportunity not to be missed. On the first day of October, with a selected team, we toured Mount Rajac and walked through the part of the mountain where the famous Battle of Kolubara took place in the First World War.

Personally, I think that the team did not like the length of the track, but if I had chosen it, it would probably have been longer.
The area itself is very tame and grateful for the organisation of walks that are suitable for ages 7 to 77 because there are no exposed parts, mostly the paths go over meadows or through the forest. The mountain itself is crisscrossed with roads, so you can go as far as you want and where you want to go.
Our starting point was the mountain lodge on Rajac, which in addition to food offers sleeping.

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This is the monument dedicated to 1300 corporals From Wikipedia 1300 corporals is the name for the 1300 untrained officers that were sent as a reinforcement to the Serbian First Army at the Battle of Kolubara. At the start of the war, many young men from both Serbia and Austria-Hungary left school and made themselves available to the High Command of the Serbian army. They were sent to the military school in Skopje. Even though their training wasn't yet completed, the development of the events forced the High Command to dispatch them to battle. The Serbian army was in retreat, demoralized, in shortage of ammunition, Belgrade was in the enemy's hands, so the world already came to terms with the complete breakdown of Serbia. All available forces were needed for the crucial battle, which is why the corporal ranks were distributed to the youngsters in Skopje (hence the name), and were sent for Kolubara and Suvobor the next morning. There, the Serbian army, led by Živojin Mišić, pulled off one of the most important victories in World War I. During 1916 and 1917, a group of around 500 corporals were in Jausiers, France, for a military training, from where they returned to the front. 1300 corporals symbolize a battle for freedom of their country and people, mainly because most of them were youngsters who went into the battle on their own initiative Glory to them!