The National Martyrs Cemetery of Albania

The National Martyrs Cemetery of Albania is the largest cemetery in Albania, located on a hill overlooking Tirana. Some 900 partisans who died during World War II are buried in the cemetery.

This cemetery holds the remains of 900 partisans who fought for Tirana in WWII. The 12m-high dynamic white statue of Mother Albania, inaugurated in 1972, watches over the graves in a windswept gown. Enver Hoxha used to be buried at her feet until he fell from grace in 1991. From the heights of the cemetery, Tirana and Mt. Dajti are spread out panoramically before you. A short drive on the bus to Sauk.

This is the cemetery where the remains of partisans that fought for Tirana are buried. Also, here one can find the statues of Mother Albania.

This is the cemetery where the remains of 900 partisans that fought for Tirana are buried. Here one can also find the 12m statue of Mother Albania (1972). Hoxha was buried here in 1985 but exhumed in 1992 and moved to the other side of the city.

The Martyrs’ Cemetery is at the top of the hill, on the other side of the road, and is where some 900 partisans who died in WWII are buried. The views over the city and surrounding mountains are excellent. Many still come here, clutching laurel sprigs to pay their respects under the shadow of the immense, beautiful and strangely androgynous Mother Albania statue (1972). Hoxha was buried here in 1985, but was exhumed in 1992 and interred in an ordinary graveyard on the other side of town.Error processing request

Martyrs' Cemetery

This is the cemetery where the remains of 900 partisans that fought for Tirana are buried. Here one can also find the 12m statue of Mother Albania (1972). Hoxha was buried here in 1985 but exhumed in 1992 and moved to the other side of the city

The Martyrs’ Cemetery is the chief burial site of Iraqis killed during the First Battle of Fallujah, both insurgents and civilians. It was formerly the soccer field of the Falluja Sports Club, and was converted into a cemetery after US troops blockaded attempts to reach the city’s main cemetery.

A sign outside the cemetery reads “This cemetery is given by the people of Fallujah to the heroic martyrs of the battle against the Americans, and to the martyrs of the Jihadi operations against the Americans, assigned and approved by the Mujahideen Shura council in Fallujah.”

The cemetery holds between 250 and 500bodies, only one of which is identified as a foreign fighter, a Tunisian. At least 22 of the dead were from a single US mortar-attack in June 2004.

The road leading to the cemetery has been named Martyrs’ Cemetery Road, and according to the Mafkarat al-Islam was the site of an August 26 2006 attack against a US convoy on the road headed to the cemetery, which destroyed a Humvee and killed three American troops, wounding two others, and a similar attack nine days later.

Another soccer field in the city was used for similar purposes.