Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The killing of the Archduke and his wife set off the July Crisis, a chain of events that within one month led to the outbreak of World War I.
Vidovdan is a Serbian national and religious holiday, a slava celebrated on 28 June, or 15 June according to the Julian calendar. The Serbian Church designates it as the memorial day to Saint Prince Lazar and the Serbian holy martyrs who fell during the Battle of Kosovo against the Ottoman Empire on 15 June 1389. It is an important part of Serb ethnic and Serbian national identity.
Young Bosnia was a separatist and revolutionary movement active in the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary before World War I. Its members were predominantly young male students, primarily Serbs, but it also included Bosnian Muslims and Croats. There were two key ideologies promoted amongst the members of the group—the Yugoslavist and the Pan-Serb. Philosophically, Young Bosnia was inspired by a variety of ideas, movements, theorists, and events, such as German romanticism, anarchism, Russian revolutionary socialism, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the Battle of Kosovo.
Trifun "Trifko" Grabež was a Bosnian Serb member of the Black Hand organization which was involved in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Danilo Ilić was a Bosnian Serb who was among the chief organisers of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Muhamed Mehmedbašić was a Bosnian revolutionary and the main planner in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to a sequence of events that resulted in the outbreak of World War I.
Latin Bridge is an Ottoman-era bridge over the river Miljacka in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip. They were shot at close range while being driven through Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.
Istočno Novo Sarajevo is a municipality of the city of Istočno Sarajevo located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 10,642 inhabitants.
The Church of the Holy Transfiguration is a Serbian Orthodox church in Novo Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
St. George Slays the Dragon is a Serbian war drama film directed by Srđan Dragojević and written by Dušan Kovačević. The movie premiered on March 11, 2009.
The Museum of Sarajevo 1878–1918 is located near the Latin Bridge in central Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The building had been Moritz Schiller's Delicatessen in 1914, the year that Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary was shot dead by Gavrilo Princip from the street corner outside, indirectly starting World War I.
Slobodan Princip, nicknamed Seljo (Сељо), was a Yugoslav Partisan fighter and the district staff chief of the Partisan Sarajevo area during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero. He was the nephew of Gavrilo Princip.
Bogdan Žerajić was a Hercegovinian Serb student of the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb.
Vladimir Gaćinović was a Bosnian Serb essayist and revolutionary in Austria-Hungary. He was one of the leaders and organizers of the secret cells of the revolutionary movement Young Bosnia.
Staka Skenderova was a Bosnian teacher, social worker, writer and folklorist. She is credited with establishing Sarajevo's first school for girls on 19 October 1858. The following year, she became the first published woman author in modern Bosnia.
Mihajlo "Miško" Jovanović was a Bosnian Serb who was involved in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
Church of St. Archangel Michael is Orthodox Christian church in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in Veličani village within contemporary Orthodox cemetery, in a central part of Popovo Polje, municipality Trebinje, Republika Srpska entity.
Andrija Raičević was a Serbian icon painter and miniaturist who worked during the Ottoman occupation of the Balkan Peninsula.
Georgije Hransislav was the bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
