Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Serbs are a splendid people. The people are very democratic (there is no gentry or merchant class), and there is no industrialism, owing to the absence of routes for trade with the outside world. The spirit of nationality in them was brought to a head by the annexation of Bosnia by Austria in 1908, and resulted in the training of an army which has defeated Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria...