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The Black Hand took over the terrorist actions [which?] of Narodna Odbrana and deliberately worked to obscure any distinctions between the two groups, trading on the prestige and network of the older organization. Black Hand members held important army and government positions. Crown Prince Alexander was an enthusiastic financial supporter. [19]
Black Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants. Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia ...
In Australia, the Black Hand Gang (Mano Negra) supposedly also operated in the NSW town of Griffith. The NLA Trove has scanned images from newspaper articles from the period when the Black Hand Gang in Australia supposedly operated. 121.223.51.164 05:35, 25 January 2014 (UTC) If you have sources, improve the article by editing it.
The article says the Black Hand was formed in 1911; however historian C. L. Sulzberger in his Fall of Eagles says that Black Hand was behind the assassination of King Alexander I and Queen Draga in 1903, with Apis being the leader.--Jeanne Boleyn 11:53, 15 June 2010 (UTC) In addition, there is conflicting information in the document.
Black Hand (Slovenia) (Črna roka), an anti-communist organization that carried out assassinations in the Slovene Lands during World War II; Yiddish Black Hand, a.k.a. Jewish Black Hand Association, a criminal organization that operated on New York's Lower East Side during the early 20th century
The Black Hand Association/Society (Egyptian Arabic: جمعية اليد السوداء, romanized: Jam'ia al-Yad al-Sawda') was one of the irregular armed organizations that arose in Egypt in order to resist the British occupation. It was founded out of the secret apparatus of the 1919 Egyptian revolution and led by Abdel Rahman Fahmy. [1]
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Grabež, Ciganović and Princip in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, May 1914.. When it was announced that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian Empire, was going to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina in June 1914, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević, the chief of the Intelligence Department in the Serbian Army and head of the Black Hand, sent seven men, Grabež, Nedeljko ...