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This is also a great read, I've not seen it before. > No map can do justice to the ethnological complexity of this region. The Serbs, Croats and
by boomskats 4y ago
This is also a great read, I've not seen it before.
> No map can do justice to the ethnological complexity of this region. The Serbs, Croats and Montenegrins are of the same blood, tho divided by religion and nationality. The annexation by Austria in 1908 of Bosnia and Herzegovina, both racially united to Servia rather than Hungary, destroyed their hopes of joining in one great Servian empire, and this disappointment gave rise to the bitter resentment against the Austrian crown which is now displayed.
It's quite interesting to think that even then, in the US press, Austrohungarian imperialism translated as 'preventing the Great Servian empire'.
- throwawayphone 4y ago[dead]