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Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo, 1914. Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo, also erroneously identified as The Arrest of Gavrilo Princip, is a historically significant photograph that captured the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
Young Bosnia's activities were influenced by historical events such as the Battle of Kosovo and figures like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche. The most infamous act associated with Young Bosnia was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 by Gavrilo Princip , one of its members.
Gavrilo Princip was born on 25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1894, [1][2] in the remote hamlet of Obljaj, near Bosansko Grahovo, in western Bosnia. [3] At the time of his birth, Bosnia was administered by Austria-Hungary, while still formally a province of the Ottoman Empire. [4] He was the second of his parents' nine children, six of whom died in infancy.
Gavrilo Princip outside the courthouse. Unknown to the Black Hand, a second plot against the archduke had arisen that spring of 1914 when student Gavrilo Princip was shown a newspaper cutting announcing Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria's visit to Bosnia in June, by his friend and fellow Young Bosnia member Nedeljko Čabrinović. [43]
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia said Monday it has confirmed an indictment against Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik on charges of defying the top international ...
The remains of 14 victims of the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia's Srebrenica were reburied on Thursday, the 29th anniversary of what became Europe's first atrocity since ...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria[a] (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. [2] His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I. Franz Ferdinand was the eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, the younger brother of Emperor Franz ...
Rudolf Zistler (or Cistler; 1886–1960 [1]) was an Austro-Hungarian socialist and lawyer, most known for having defended members of Young Bosnia on trial for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Zistler moved to Sarajevo before the start of World War I. His daughter Vanda Zistler became a prominent opera singer at the ...