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Sarajevo : city in Bosnia, Yugoslavia. The Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia & Herzegovina in 1908 inciting a resistance movement that led Bosnian Serb to murder the heir apparent & his wife on June 28, 1914, handing the Austro-Hungarian Govt. a pretext to mobilize against Serbia, which led to a war which set the stage for an all-Europe War which sucked in its colonies as well as non-European nations.

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... Near-Eastern hope and commercial and colonial rivalries in Northern Africa over which the dominant nations had been battling in peace long before one or more of them grasped at the rifle and the shell. Sarajevo and Belgium were mere determining circumstances; to get to the root causes we have to go back as far at least as Agadir and Algeciras. From Morocco to Tripoli, from Tripoli to Thrace and Macedonia ...

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... Deutschen gehört die Welt – the world belongs to the Germans. On 28 June 1914, a week after the decision to publish the Arya, the Austrian crown prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. The following day Austria declared war on Serbia; on 1 August Germany stood by its Austrian ally and declared war on Russia, and two days later on France; on 4 August German troops invaded neutral ...

... least under this form, seems remote. × On June 28, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated at Sarajevo. × Satprem no longer remembers the source of this false information. ...

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... the birthday of Sri Aurobindo, and I think the war broke out on 3 August." As for the War, it came about with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne, at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Austria declared war on Serbia on 28 July. Germany declared war on Russia on 1 st August. France entered the conflict on 3 rd August. Great Britain followed suit on 4 th August ...