I am a graduated historian who was learning not only history of Ancient Greece, Roman and Byzantine Empire, but also modern history of Europe (including Greece).
Like most of the Serbs, I have special emotions for Greek land and Greek people who are our most trusted friends and historic allies in the neighborhood. I traveled to Greece several times (so far, I visited Athens, Thessaloniki, Metheora monasteries, also islands of Rhodes, Cos, Symi and Corfu) and I intend to keep on doing so. I would like to present beauty of that country and hospitality of its people.
Very few people abroad and especially overseas know that 100 years ago Greece, its island Corfu and the town of Thessaloniki gave shelter and food to an entire nation expelled from its homeland, together with its army, Parliament, Government and the king. We Serbs know that very well and we shall never forget it, as cemeteries of our ancestors are dispersed through northern Greece and we visit them regularly as someone else would visit Jerusalem.
That is especially important to mention in the years between 2014 and 2018, when we are going to celebrate the centenary of the World War I, in which our country sacrificed 25% of its total population and one third of men who lived in Serbia at that time, fighting from the first day of the Great War to the final victory in 1918 for common values of our allies: France, United Kingdom, United States of America, Russian Empire, Japan, Italy, Greece, Belgium, and Romania