Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seismic disturbances caused heavy damage in the Balkans, particularly in the provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia...
Serbia's history was likewise one to test the Imagination of students. Professor Coolidge piled incident upon incident to illustrate the unsettled times, featured by the Turks entering Europe, the Serbs passing under Turkish rule, Serbian immigration into Hungary and the Serbian wars of independence prior to 1876. Bosnia and Herzegovina were alluded to as "the meting ground between Serbs and Croats," and the settlements of the Congress of Berlin, with Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina causing intense disappointment of the Serbs. Nevertheless, there was the Austrian alliance and its predominance in Serbia till the accession of Peter Kaigevyevich...
...From these documents it will be possible accurately to trace the development of that web of secret diplomacy which lay behind the activity of the Central Powers in precipitating the world war. We learn, for example, that Austria had been granted the right by Germany and Russia to annex Bosnia and Herzogovina as early as 1881, and this shows us why Russia was obliged to withdraw her protest against the seizure o these territories in 1908 We see how Germany and Austria were able to convince each other that a general European War in 1914 could...