The causes and meaning of the great war . eeks, andBulgarians, partly in separate districts and partlymixed. 68. The People in Bosnia and Herzegovina DesireUnion with their Brethren in Serbia.—Since theBerlin Congress in 1878, following the war betweenTurkey and Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina hadbeen part of the Turkish Empire only in name. Theywere actually ruled by Austria-Hungary, but theyhated their rulers as foreigners and drillmasters anddesired union with the people of their own languageand customs in Serbia. And the dream of the Serbsfor centuries had been to revive a Greater Serbia. 6
The causes and meaning of the great war . eeks, andBulgarians, partly in separate districts and partlymixed. 68. The People in Bosnia and Herzegovina DesireUnion with their Brethren in Serbia.—Since theBerlin Congress in 1878, following the war betweenTurkey and Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina hadbeen part of the Turkish Empire only in name. Theywere actually ruled by Austria-Hungary, but theyhated their rulers as foreigners and drillmasters anddesired union with the people of their own languageand customs in Serbia. And the dream of the Serbsfor centuries had been to revive a Greater Serbia. 69. The Extension of the Organization and Powerof Serbia very Distasteful to Austria-Hungary.—Suchan extension of the national organization and powerof Serbia was very distasteful to Austria-Hungary,for it seriously interfered with the ambitious plansof Austro-Hungarian diplomats and wished for such political control of Serbia asthe Dual Monarchy had exercised from 1878 to1903. During that period the Serbian ruler, King. from a photograph, copyright by Underwood and UnderwoodTHE MARKET SQUARE, SPARTA 48 THE CAUSES AND MEANING OF Alexander, had been pro-Austrian in sympathies; but at the end of the period he was murdered and in his place a pro-Russian ruler ascended the Serbian throne. Russia de- 70. Russia Supports Serbia for Racial and Eco- sires a nomic Reasons.—From that time Serbia was a pro- trade out- . x let to the sea tege of Russia, the great Slavic Power to whom this smaller Slavic state looked for backing andprotection. Such support Russia was more thanwilling to give not only for racial but also for eco-nomic reasons. She had no satisfactory trade out-let to the sea, and as most of her exports reachedforeign lands by going through the Dardanelles,she had long desired to get control of Constan-tinople, which commanded these famous in this, she might well desire, throughSerbia, to extend her influence over the BalkanPeninsula as far
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