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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia, especially in the United States in Italian-American ghettos or neighborhoods.

  4. Apr 23, 2017 · Before the Mafia captured the American crime spotlight in the 1920s, there was the Society of the Black Hand, which made ends meet by terrorizing and extorting fellow Italians, mainly, among...

  5. 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.

  6. May 28, 2019 · The Black Hand was the name of a Serbian terrorist group with nationalist aims, who sponsored the attack on Austrian Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that both killed him and provided the spark for World War I.

  7. 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....

  8. The Black Hand movement was dedicated to freeing Bosnia from Austrian occupation and incorporating it into Greater Serbia. The movement is significant for its connection with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

  9. The "Black Hand" was a Serbian military society formed on 9 May 1911 by officers in the Royal Serbian Army, originating in the conspiracy group that assassinated the Serbian royal couple in May 1903, led by captain Dragutin Dimitrijević (Commonly referred to as "Apis").

  10. Early in the morning of June 11th, 1903, King Alexander Obrenovic of Serbia and his Queen were brutally murdered by a group of insurgent officers, who ransacked the royal palace of Belgrade in a fervour of inebriated patriotism.

  11. The Black Hand (Unification or Death) was formed by a ring of influential officers of the Serbian army, headed by Dragutin Dimitrijević (1876-1917), known as “Apis”, in May 1911.

  12. Aug 11, 2008 · Ten men met on May 9, 1911 to form Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (Union or Death), also known as The Black Hand. The seal of their group is reproduced above. By 1914, there were several hundred members, perhaps as many as 2500. Many members were Serbian army officers.

  13. This article takes a look at the fate of each of the Young Bosnians who played their part in killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, as well as the role the Black Hand played in the planning and organisation of the assassination.

  14. Jan 27, 2023 · On May 9, 1911, 10 Narodna Odbrana formed the Black Hand — sometimes called “Unification or Death” (or Ujedinjenje ili Smrt in Serbian). The Black Hand was a secret Serbian nationalist group mostly comprised of the Serbian military.

  15. When it was learned that the heir-apparent to the Austrian throne, Franz Ferdinand, was scheduled to visit Sarajevo in June of 1914, the Black Hand decided to assassinate him because of his perceived threat to Serbian independence.

  16. The Black Hand is most famous for its role in the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, which sparked a series of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

  17. The Black Hand (which was also known as ‘Unification or Death’) was a Serbian nationalist organization that existed in the early part of the 20th century. In fact, the Black Hand is most associated with the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

  18. Jun 22, 2023 · The program documents the Black Hand's decade of extortion, arson, kidnapping and murder and links to the underworld in Calabria in southern Italy.

  19. www.wvencyclopedia.org › print › Articlee-WV | The Black Hand

    The Black Hand was the name and symbol of an underworld society of Italian immigrants that, during the first decades of the 20th century, sought to extort money from other Italian immigrants. Thriving in Sicily in the late 19th century, the Black Hand came to the New World as part of the great migration to America’s mines and factories.

  20. Episode 1. 56m. Through the frame of his own family, Anthony LaPaglia explores the violent reign of the Black Hand, an Italian criminal gang in Australia's deep north and the tumultuous history of Australia and Italy between the wars. Violence. This episode was published 11 months ago. Episode 2. 56.

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