The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the ...

On a summer day 100 years ago today, two men crossed paths in Sarajevo. One was stout, middle-aged and powerful; the other undernourished, barely out of his teens and a non-entity. The older man was ...

Tragedy has struck as Archduke Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo while on a drive with his beloved Archduchess. This startling news has reverberated through the streets, reaching even ...

Life can be unpredictable and is often infused with bitter irony. Consider the incredible and terrible course of the two brothers Ernst and Max. Born into the luxury of the Austro-Hungarian imperial ...

Allan Little looks at how the assassin is remembered in Sarajevo Bosnia has commemorated 100 years since the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the act that triggered ...

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For one half of the city, he was the national hero who fought against imperial oppression and fully deserves a new park in his name. For the other half he is a villain who killed a pregnant woman and ...

Events are held in Sarajevo and Visegrad on Saturday one hundred years after Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which sparked the first ...

It was 87 years ago this week that a Bosnian Serb student stood on a street corner in Sarajevo and fired the shots which would lead to the start of the First World War. But a trip to this infamous ...

Bosnia has been buried in historic floods and paralyzed by political dysfunction. Now, locals in Sarajevo are frustrated that the world has only begun focusing on the region for the upcoming ...

Thousands of people have gathered in Sarajevo to commemorate 100 years since the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand - an event which triggered World War One. The Presidents of Austria ...