Austro-Hungarian Military Cemetery Brje II

Military Cemetery

On the outskirts of the village of Brje pri Komnu, there were five Austro-Hungarian cemeteries during World War I. At the end of the war, Brje I military cemetery was abandoned and the mortal remains moved to other cemeteries. The Italian register for military cemeteries, that was done after the war states:
-Brje II (known today as Brje III (in a doline by the road towards Škofi)): 798 buried soldiers,
-Brje III (known today as Brje I (by the main road towards Tublje)): 1,317 buried soldiers,
-Brje IV (it bears the same name today (the first cemetery by the forest path towards the south)): 1,063 buried soldiers,
-Brje V (known today as Brje II (the last cemetery by the forest road towards south)): 401 buried soldiers.

 

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Information

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(Štanjel Castle Visitor Centre)
Štanjel 1a
SI–6222 Štanjel
+386 41 383 986
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https://www.visitstanjel.si/

GPS coordinates

45.778259, 13.721296
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