Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serbia had been expanded into a nation twice its original size as a result of the post-War treaties and plebiscites, which gave Serbia Montenegro, the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the semiautonomous region of Croatia and other generous slices of Hungary. The population was thus trebled (to 15,000,000) and all the south Slavs (Yugoslavia means "land of south Slavs") were united. Yugoslavia became, after Rumania, the second largest Balkan State (area: 96,000 square miles...
...discoveries of Minoan art in Crete that affected the whole conception of early Grecian history. His collection for the most part was not acquired from other connoisseurs nor from dealers but was gathered during a lifetime of personal search. He picked up his first gem in a bazaar in Bosnia on a youthful walking trip, found others during seven years of research on the Eastern Adriatic shores and in travels around Sicily. Most of them, however, came in the period of his digging in Crete, where he even found them worn by the peasants as "milk-stones...
...early as 1908 munitions makers were supposedly anticipating the War. No clairvoyance did this imply since in 1908 Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Hertzegovina and Europe was already enjoying the series of war scares which continued intermittently until 1914. Evidence of the arms makers' inside knowledge was an affidavit, presented by the Colt Company in 1926 during hearings on a tax case, which said: "From 1908 our sales to foreign governments steadily increased. . . . Indications were that Europe at that time was preparing...
...regents will have much more than the unruly Croats to contend with. Jugoslavia's population is 11% Mohammedan. Dalmatia is filled with Italians, the scene of much Italian intrigue. Bosnia and Herzegovina have important German minorities. Montenegrans are wondering why they ever gave up their independence...
...discreet public mourner, an adept at praising heroes of the assassination in terms to which the police can take no exception. Though he himself killed no man, Vladimir Gachinovich, son of an Orthodox priest, was said in Serbian police reports of 1913 to "hold half the revolutionary youth of Bosnia in his hands." Sarajevo was then the capital of Bosnia and still treasured in the town are copies of the celebrated pamphlet, The Death of a Hero, by Vladimir Gachinovich, glorifying the assassination in 1910 of the Governor of Bosnia...