relation between A.H and Serbia

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paratatruc
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relation between A.H and Serbia

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Post by paratatruc » 22 Nov 2006, 20:12

The assassination of F.F seems to be a slight reason for starting a war against its neighbor, that could easily become an European war.
Was the tension between Serbia and A.H that high? I have never heard about any border accident between the two nations, only some small diplomatic and economical clashes like the prohibition made by A.H to import Serbian pigs, or the official protest after the Assassination of the king from the Obrenovic dynasty.
Did A.H considered its territorial integrity threaten by the Serbian imperialism?How?
Did those who want to create a great Serbia, or a Yugoslavian kingdom had an important influence on the Serbian government?
Any border accident, or things like that between the two nations?
Thanks in advance for you answers,

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Post by cj » 22 Nov 2006, 22:09

In 1903 a coup'de ta ousted Serbia's traditional royal dynasty thanks to the support of Dragutin Dimitrijevic. Dimitrijevic thus became the power behind the thrown, and also held multiple high ranking Serbian Army position, but his favorite job was his role as founder of the Back Hand. He had considered murdering Franz Ferdinand in 1911, but decided it was to risky. In 1914 he took an alternate route when he accepted a proposal by Gravilo Princip and his team to assassinate the Archduke. He trained them in Belgrade, provided them with Serbian Army pistols and bombs, and used army border gaurds to smuggle them into Bosnia Herzigovnia. BH had been occupied by the AHs sometime around the treaty of San Stefano, the end of the 1877 Russo-Turkish war, in which Russia gained a strong base in the Balkans thanks to a powerful and strongly pro-russian Bulgaria. In an attempt to keep Russian ambitions on the Balkan panninsula under control, AH snatched up BH. During the dark ages BH had been part of a greater Serbia. Dimitrijevic and his fellow Serbian fanatical nationalists dreamed of recreating a greater Serbia. It was an unrealistic idea as most Bosnians under AH rule weren't very upset. In fact Bosnian units fought on the Balkan front throughout the war. The dream would be achieved in 1918 with the formation of Yugoslavia, probably one of the better examples of a failure of a nation. Anyways, AH was really just trying to keep russia under control, and had little quarrels with Serbia, in fact Franz Ferdinand was notoriously anti-war with Serbia


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Post by G. Trifkovic » 23 Nov 2006, 00:11

During the dark ages BH had been part of a greater Serbia.
"Greater Serbia" as a term in today's sense did not exist in the "dark ages". Kingdoms rose, shrinked and collapsed, as anywhere in Europe. Every ruler tried to expand his realm, which is understandable. Serbian rulers possesed parts of Bosnia from time to time and vica-versa.

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