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Speaker 1: no day is boring. Today's October six, nineteen. The day

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Speaker 1: it was October six night Austria Hungary informed the Ottoman

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Speaker 1: Empire of his annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This announcement

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Speaker 1: set off what's known as the Bosnian Crisis, a period

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Speaker 1: of conflict between Austria Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. Under

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Speaker 1: the Treaty of Berlin, Austria Hungary gained the right to

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Speaker 1: occupy and administer the Ottoman empires provinces of Bosnia and

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Speaker 1: Herzegovina and the Sanjak of Novi Pazar, but Austria Hungary

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Speaker 1: always had its site set on permanent possession of the provinces.

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Speaker 1: Bosnia and Herzegovina were widely sought after, but Austria Hungary

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Speaker 1: put a lot of work into developing infrastructure, minds, factories, agriculture,

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Speaker 1: and schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: ethnic and religious conflict grew within Bosnia and Herzegovina and

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Speaker 1: groups in the two provinces displayed nationalists ambitions. The Young

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Speaker 1: Turk Revolution broke out in the Ottoman Empire in nineteen

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Speaker 1: o eight, and it restored the Ottoman Constitution of eighteen

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Speaker 1: seventy six and revived the Ottoman Parliament. Vienna was afraid

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Speaker 1: that the new authorities in the government of the Ottoman

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Speaker 1: Empire would try to restore Ottoman political power in Bosnia

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Speaker 1: and Herzegovina. As a pro Russia Serbia vied for control

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Speaker 1: over the Sandjack of Novi Pazar and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Speaker 1: Russia itself was destabilized after defeat in the Russo Japanese War.

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Speaker 1: Foreign Minister of Austria Hungary Alois graflex Of von Arenthal

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Speaker 1: saw an opportunity for Austria Hungary to assert its dominance

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Speaker 1: in the Balkans. Austria Hungary's ambassador to Russia, Leopol Grafferschol

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Speaker 1: set up a meeting between Arenthal and the Russian Minister

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Speaker 1: of Foreign Affairs Alexander Petrovitch Aswolski's in September of nineteen

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Speaker 1: eight at busch Lau in Morabia. What actually happened at

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Speaker 1: the meeting is up for debate, as no minutes of

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Speaker 1: the meeting were released. Aswolski said that Russia would not

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Speaker 1: object to the annexation and in exchange, Austria Hungary would

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Speaker 1: not object to open the Bosporus and Dardanal Straits to

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Speaker 1: Russian warships. Aswolski insisted on an international conference before the

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Speaker 1: annexation took place. But on October six, the day after

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Speaker 1: Bulgaria declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire, Emperor Franz

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Speaker 1: Joseph the First of Austria announced that it was annexing

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Speaker 1: Bosnia and Herzegovina. The withdrawal of the Austro Hungarian army

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Speaker 1: from the Sanjak of noby Pazar was all so announced,

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Speaker 1: but Asbolsky was not expecting the annexation to happen so soon.

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Speaker 1: He said that Aarenthal did not tell him the date

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Speaker 1: of annexation and that he did not know Austria Hungary

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Speaker 1: planned on executing it before the matter was settled with

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Speaker 1: other political powers. Opposition to the annexation erupted in Europe.

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Speaker 1: Russia and the Balkans, France, written and Italy protested the annexation.

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Speaker 1: Pan Slavic nationalists throughout Europe were unhappy with the announcement.

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Speaker 1: Serbia insisted that Austria Hungary seed part of the Sanjak

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Speaker 1: of Novi Pazar to them, and Asbolsky supported them, but

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Speaker 1: Austria Hungary, backed by Germany, threatened to invade Serbia. At

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Speaker 1: the end of the Bosnian crisis, Austria Hungary seemed to

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Speaker 1: have come out on top after a boycott of Austro

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Speaker 1: Hungarian goods caused commercial losses. Austria Hungary ended up paying

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Speaker 1: an indemnity to the Ottomans and alien eating many from

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Speaker 1: Austrian policy, but the Ottoman Empire recognized the annexation, which

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Speaker 1: Russia and Serbia accepted in March of nineteen o nine.

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Speaker 1: The next month, the Treaty of Berlin was amended to

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Speaker 1: accept the annexation. The nation's managed to avoid war, but

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Speaker 1: tense relations between Austria Hungary, Russia and Serbia after the

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Speaker 1: latter two faced such humiliation remained and contributed to the

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Speaker 1: outbreak of World War one and nineteen fourteen. I'm Eve

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