Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Austria governed these provinces well for the next thirty years,while the rest of Turkey continued to suffer from the Turkish revolution took place in 1908, however, andthere seemed to be some chance of a new and strong Turkey,Austria determined to prevent Bosnia and Herzegovina fromever entering into it, and so boldly annexed them to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The neighboring state of Serbia wasalarmed and indignant at this, since the annex


Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Austria governed these provinces well for the next thirty years,while the rest of Turkey continued to suffer from the Turkish revolution took place in 1908, however, andthere seemed to be some chance of a new and strong Turkey,Austria determined to prevent Bosnia and Herzegovina fromever entering into it, and so boldly annexed them to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The neighboring state of Serbia wasalarmed and indignant at this, since the annexed provinceswere peopled with South Slavs,^ and the Serbians had cherishedthe ambition of uniting with them and the Montenegrins in anew south Slavonic state which would reach from the Danubeto the Adriatic. Russia also was angered, but when Germany,Austrias ally, declared that it would support Austria, in armsif need be, Russia, which had not yet recovered from the war 1 See above, p. 695. 2 They are mainly Croats, professing the Catholic religion, while the Serbsare of the Orthodox Greek Church, but they have common traditions. ^^x.


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