From today, a street in Belgrade, near the “Šumice” Health Center in the Voždovac municipality, will bear the name of the famous Janis Janulis, a Greek peasant from the island of Corfu and a benefactor.

In January 1916, when the Serbian army arrived on Corfu, they were stationed in local areas. The Drina Division was located in the village of Agios Mateos, and Janis Janulis allowed a military camp to be built on his land, where Serbian warriors who survived the ordeal of Albania could recover. Alongside his countrymen, he assisted the soldiers by bringing them food and sacks made of goat hair to protect them from the rain, while singing “Tamo daleko” with them. Many of them succumbed to exhaustion, and the bodies of 560 soldiers were buried on his land. They were later exhumed and their remains transferred to the island of Vido. Out of respect, Janis and his descendants never cultivated that plot of land again.

The Serbian warriors who survived on Janis Janulis’ estate erected a monument in honor of their fallen comrades, which was solemnly unveiled on May 17, 1916, by Regent Aleksandar Karađorđević, the supreme commander of the Serbian army at the time. In 1993, the Society for Preserving the Traditions of Serbia’s Liberation Wars erected a bust of Janis Janulis in the village center.

In 2010, the city of Niš named a street after him.

Thanks and glory to him!