Detail of Cram's 1903 Railway Map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire showing the Tyrol and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
The 1878 Treaty of Berlin that ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1878 affirmed Turkey's significant losses in the war including the establishment of Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, and Bulgaria. It also assigned 'administration' of Bosnia-Herzegovina to Austria-Hungary.When the Young Turks came to power in 1908, they restored the Turkish constitution of 1876 and promised legal and electoral reforms. Slavs of Bosnia-Herzegovina asked to be represented in the Turkish parliament in Constantinople. Fearful of losing the province, Austria-Hungary responded by annexing it. In response to the annexation, Serbia mobilized its army, but could not obtain the backing of Russia, its fellow Slavic nation, in forcing Austria-Hungary to reverse its action. Russia acquiesced, something that, in 1914, it would feel it could not do again.Austria-Hungary's act thwarted Serbia's hope to bring the province under its own control. Within two days of the annexation Serbian government and government officials founded Narodna Odbrana - National Defense to . . .Both legal and underground organizations that worked more or less closely with Serbia were founded to promote independence from Austria-Hungary, or union with Serbia.The people of Bosnia-Herzegovina were largely ethnic Serbs and Croats, and religiously mostly Serb-Orthodox, Moslem, and Roman Catholic.Sarajevo, site of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, was the capital of the province.Turkey in Europe loses Bosnia Herzegovina, Austrian ‘administration’ (Times Atlas of World History p228), 1878; then incorporated (p228) annexed (p215) into Austria Hungary 1908.
Bosnia-Herzegovina is a region in Austria-Hungary.
