Skull Tower (Cele Kula) - Nis, Serbia
Skull Tower is a stone structure embedded with human skulls located in Niš, Serbia. It was constructed following the Battle of Čegar of May 1809, during the First Serbian Uprising. Serbian rebels under the command of Stevan Sinđelić were attacked by the Ottomans on Čegar Hill, near Niš. Knowing that he and his fighters would be impaled if captured, Sinđelić detonated a powder magazine within the rebel entrenchment, killing himself, his fellow rebels and the encroaching Ottoman soldiers. Vizier Hurshid Pasha ordered that a tower be made from the skulls of the fallen rebels. The tower is metres (15 ft) high, and originally contained 952 skulls embedded on four sides in 14 rows.
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Location: Niš
Photo credit: © Mariano Garcia / Alamy / Afripics
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