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- 01The tower was built from skulls of Serbian rebels killed at the Battle of Čegar, 1809 — originally held 952 heads.
- 02Serbian families reportedly climbed the tower at night to retrieve and bury their relatives' skulls; 58 remain today.
- 03Serbia later built a chapel around the tower — preserving the Ottoman atrocity as a national martyrdom relic.