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On 28 June 1914 a 19-year-old Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophia at Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, then under Austro-Hungarian rule. Convinced that the assassin had the secret backing of the kingdom of Serbia, on 28 July, regardless of Serbia’s willingness to make concessions, Austria declared war. The incident at Sarajevo provided Austria with the excuse it sought to crush rebellious Serbia and end Russian meddling in the Balkans once and for all.
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Woodruff, W. (1998). The Great War: 1914-18. In: A Concise History of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26663-0_11
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