They were aimed against the existing feudal order in Europe and wanted to accomplish both social and national liberation.
Young Bosnia was part of a broader Eastern European trend of the day, where the radicalized youth began forming organizations that were simultaneously left-wing and nationalist. The distinction between pan-Serbianism and Yugoslavism was unclear to many and often considered synonymous, at least by the Serbs, if not the Croats and Bosnians.
A young Balkan state inspired by ideas of 19th-century nationalism, Serbia had sought to expand its holdings onto territories populated not only by ethnic Serbs but by all other South Slavs, primarily Croats and Bosnian Muslims. In 1908, Austria-Hungary formally annexed Bosnia, nearly prompting a war with Serbia. Previously controlled by the Ottoman Empire, Bosnia had been under Habsburg rule since 1878, when the Congress of Berlin confirmed its control over the region in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb by origin and a member of a terrorist organization called Young Bosnia, whose goal was the unification of South Slavs and the liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Austro-Hungarian occupation. Who Were the Conspirators? North Camp near Mostar during the Bosnian campaign of 1878 by Alexander Ritter von Bensa the Younger and Adolf Obermüller, via Nevertheless, his accidental placement on the corner across from Sarajevo’s famous Latin Bridge would prove to be decisive, and the real story is as exciting as the apocryphal one. His whereabouts seem to have been more of a product of commotion following an unsuccessful assassination attempt. However, he was not there to eat a sandwich. Princip did, in fact, murder Franz Ferdinand on the corner in front of Moritz Schiller’s Delicatessen, and the building has since been converted into the Museum of Sarajevo 1878–1918. The problem with this story is that, although captivating, it is simply not true.
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This story has been repeated endlessly in media and has even made it to an episode of the famous thriller series Fargo. As the story goes, just as he walked into Sarajevo’s famed Moritz Schiller’s Delicatessen for a snack, he saw the motorcade driving by, came out, and started shooting. You may have heard the story of Gavrilo Princip and the sandwich – a fable according to which Princip went to get a sandwich following the failure of the first conspirator to murder the Habsburg Archduke. There Was No Sandwich For Gavrilo Princip The Latin Bridge and the Museum of Sarajevo 1878–1918, located on the site of the former Schiller’s Delicatessen, via Travel Sarajevo
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