!!!Sarajevo

Sarajevo, capital of  Bosnia- Herzegovina, 1878-1908 a Turkish 
province occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1908-1918 formally 
annexed as an Imperial land. It was in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914 that 
the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz 
Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot and killed by G. Princip. The 
assassination triggered World War I. Including a 3,400 man garrison, 
Sarajevo had 44.000 inhabitants in 1910 (12,000 Catholics, 19,000 
Muslims, 8,000 Serbian Orthodox, 5,000 Jews); Catholic Archbishop. 
Orthodox Metropolitain, Ulama Madžlis (Islamic religious 
council). The commander of the 15%%sup th/%  army corps was also the 
head of the provincial government. At the time of the Austro-Hungarian 
Monarchy, Sarajevo had a city hall (1892-1895), banks, churches, 
bazaar with mosque, advanced-level secondary school, teacher training 
college, numerous lower-level secondary schools, monasteries and 
convents, hospitals and a provincial museum.


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