MemorialSS 0093
Monument on Čegar
Čegar, Niš, Nišava District · Serbia
A memorial on the site of the Battle of Čegar of May 1809, in which Vojvoda Stevan Sinđelić, rather than fall into Ottoman hands, fired into the powder magazine of his trench. The first marker was placed there in 1878, after the liberation of Niš, and the present tower-shaped monument was built in 1927 for the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation. Sinđelić’s bust was placed in a niche of the monument in 1938.
Why it is in the database
The monument meets the following criteria:
- IIRemembranceCommemorates a person, event or suffering from Serbian history.
- VIdentityPermanently inscribed in Serbian historical memory, tradition and literature.
