Young Bosnia

Young Bosnia refers to a loosely organised grouping of <a href="/facts/Separatism/KubEMvMr">separatist</a> and <a href="/facts/Revolutionary_movement/D9oUdTTy">revolutionary</a> cells active in the early 20th century, that sought to end the <a href="/facts/Austro-Hungarian_rule_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/JzeFrk0S">Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>.
Its members, primarily <a href="/facts/Serbs_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/Hf9oIQ8S">Bosnian Serbs</a> but also <a href="/facts/Bosnian_Muslims/Ql7ttxoI">Bosniaks</a> and <a href="/facts/Croats_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/Y4xeSvMB">Bosnian Croats</a>, were driven by various ideologies, prominently <a href="/facts/Yugoslavism/rFtdx9AJ">Yugoslavism</a>, the unification of <a href="/facts/South_Slavs/lvXFR0wc">South Slavic peoples</a> into a single Yugoslav state. The group drew inspiration from a diverse range of philosophical influences, including German <a href="/facts/Romanticism/lfG31kE3">Romanticism</a>, <a href="/facts/Anarchism/4a262gvQ">anarchism</a>, and Russian <a href="/facts/Revolutionary_socialism/UWmMhWon">revolutionary socialism</a>. Young Bosnia's activities were influenced by historical events such as the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Kosovo/D6rDLbzW">Battle of Kosovo</a> and figures like <a href="/facts/Fyodor_Dostoevsky/cbQ5REbv">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a> and <a href="/facts/Friedrich_Nietzsche/u7VdQ5sg">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>.
The most infamous act associated with Young Bosnia was the <a href="/facts/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand/TPK68sok">assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand</a> of Austria in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 by <a href="/facts/Gavrilo_Princip/dSoWnzLq">Gavrilo Princip</a>, one of its members.

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