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Black Hand, secret Serbian society of the early 20th century that used terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg or Ottoman rule and was instrumental in planning the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand, precipitating the outbreak of World War I.
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Black Hand (Serbia) Unification or Death ( Serbian: Ujedinjenje ili smrt, Serbian Cyrillic: Уједињење или смрт ), popularly known as the Black Hand (Serbian: Crna ruka, Serbian Cyrillic: Црна рука ), was a secret military society formed in 1901 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia. It gained a reputation for ...
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- Dragutin Dimitrijević
- August 1901, (as Black Hand Society), May 1911, (as Unification or Death)
Black Hand ( Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants . Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia ...
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Mar 22, 2024 · Black Hand, any of several extortion rackets run by immigrant Sicilian and Italian gangsters in the Italian communities of New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City, and other U.S. cities from about 1890 to 1920. It consisted of sending threatening notes to local merchants and other well-to-do persons—notes printed with black hands ...
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May 28, 2019 · Learn how the Black Hand, a Serbian terrorist group with nationalist aims, assassinated Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and triggered World War I. Find out about their origins, members, activities, and aftermath in Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Apr 29, 2017 · Stephan Talty's The Black Hand tells the story of the Black Hand crime wave that gripped New York City in the early 1900s and the one policeman who took it on. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon.
Learn about the Black Hand, a secret society of Serbian army officers who plotted to expand Serbia's territory and influence in the Balkans and beyond. Discover how they were involved in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Balkan Wars, and the Salonika Trial.
