At a glance
Headline counts drawn from the full dataset.
556
Monuments mapped
8
Countries
212
Named designers
1960s
Peak decade (126 sites)
108
Poor, abandoned, or destroyed
73%
With known build year
Statistics
556 monuments mapped across 8 successor states — patterns in geography, decade, condition, and preservation risk.
Key findings
Each insight is paired with the data behind it — verify the numbers in the charts.
A mid-century building boom
126 in the 1960s · 95 in the 1970s
Most dated monuments cluster in the 1960s and 1970s — the peak of Yugoslav memorial construction after WWII. Together these two decades account for 221 of 404 sites with known years.
One architect dominates the canon
25 sites · Bogdan Bogdanović
Bogdan Bogdanović appears on 25 monuments — more than any other named designer. 212 distinct designers are represented across the dataset, but 250 sites still lack a verified designer.
Preservation is uneven across borders
56% at risk · Kosovo
Kosovo has the highest share of monuments in poor, abandoned, or destroyed condition (56% of its 9 sites). Unknown shows no sites in those categories.
Renovation funding is fragmented and under-recorded
108 at-risk · no central budget
No successor state publishes a total for spomenik restoration. Documented public spending is fragmented against an estimated 20,000–40,000 memorial sites — full parliamentary snapshots and flagship gaps (including Petrova Gora) live on the Funding page.
By construction decade
Sites with a known build year, grouped by decade
Top designers
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01
Unknown 250 (45%)
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02
Bogdan Bogdanović 25 (4%)
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03
Miodrag Živković 16 (3%)
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04
Marijan Kocković 14 (3%)
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05
Vojin Bakić 10 (2%)
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06
Petar Krstić 9 (2%)
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07
Dušan Džamonja 6 (1%)
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08
Jordan Grabuloski 6 (1%)
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09
Jovan Soldatović 6 (1%)
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10
Antun Augustinčić 5 (1%)
At-risk sites by country
Share of each country's monuments rated Poor, Abandoned, or Destroyed
| Country | At risk | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kosovo | 5 | 56% |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 75 | 23% |
| North Macedonia | 4 | 16% |
| Croatia | 12 | 15% |
| Serbia | 9 | 14% |
| Montenegro | 2 | 10% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 0 | 0% |
By country
| Country | Distribution | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosnia & Herzegovina |
|
327 | 59% |
| Croatia |
|
79 | 14% |
| Serbia |
|
64 | 12% |
| North Macedonia |
|
25 | 4% |
| Slovenia |
|
24 | 4% |
| Montenegro |
|
21 | 4% |
| Kosovo |
|
9 | 2% |
| Unknown |
|
7 | 1% |
Physical context
Monument scale and surroundings — additional dimensions in the dataset.
By size
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- Medium
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- Unverified
- Multiple