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Jul 25, 2018 · Gavrilo Princip was a Yugoslav nationalist and a member of ‘Mlada Bosna’ (Young Bosnia) movement. He assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo in 1914 initiating a sequence of events that ultimately led to the outbreak of the First World War. The ‘Young Bosnia’ movement, which predominantly ...
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The Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (Union or Death) was a secret society also known as the Black Hand. The society was formed in 1911, one year before Princip was recruited and trained in terrorism. It was during this training that his desire to unite the south Slavs into a federal nation by eliminating the Austro-Hungarian rule began to surface. It became c...
By the spring of 1913 relations between Austro-Hungary and Serbia were critical. War was imminent between the two powers. Serbian conquests of neighboring territories threatened the Austro-Hungarians, causing the military governor of Bosnia to declare a state of emergency. His actions were harsh and immediate. He dissolved parliament, suspended civ...
Princip understood only too well the actions that would follow. He attempted suicide at the scene by shooting himself, but a quick-thinking onlooker swiftly knocked the gun from his hand. A mob began to close in, but Princip was rescued by the police and imprisoned. Princip and his fellow conspirators were all arrested at the scene, but during ques...
The whole of the twentieth century was sent into a tailspin as a result of two bullets fired from the gun of Gavrilo Princip. The "war to end all wars," World War I, concluded with the Treaty of Versailles, an agreement so punitive to Germany that its reaction fostered the rise of Nazism and led to World War II. The division of Europe at the end of...
Dedijer, Vladimir, The Road to Sarajevo,Simon and Schuster, 1966. Malcolm, Noel, Bosnia: A Short History, New YorkUniversity Press, 1994.
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Jun 25, 2014 · Alamy. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie shot dead in their car by Gavrilo Princip on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo. Princip one of seven members of Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia), a Bosnian Serb ...
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Gavrilo Princip was born on 25 July [ O.S. 13 July] 1894, [1] [2] in the remote hamlet of Obljaj, near Bosansko Grahovo, in western Bosnia. [3] At the time of his birth, Bosnia was administered by Austria-Hungary, while still formally a province of the Ottoman Empire. [4] He was the second of his parents' nine children, six of whom died in infancy.
The Black Hand (Crna ruka), also known as Unification or Death (Ujedinjenje ili smrt), was a secret military society formed in 1911 by officers in the Serbian Army. The organisation had a number of influential supporters within the Serbian government, and even had the financial backing of the Crown Prince Alexander.
Jun 28, 2014 · June 28 marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of “Mlada Bosna” ( Young Bosnia ), a ...
