PRINCIP, GAVRILO

gävˈrēlō prēnˈtsēp, 1895–1918, Serbian political agitator, b. Bosnia. As a high-school student and a member of the Serbian nationalist secret society Union or Death (known as the Black Hand), he assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo in 1914. His act precipitated World War I. Princip died of tuberculosis in an Austrian prison. He remains a Serbian hero.

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books on: Princip Gavrilo  - 153 results

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The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution, and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and beyond
Book by André Gerolymatos; Basic Books, 2002
Subjects: Balkan Peninsula--History, Balkan Peninsula--History, Military, Christianity And Other Religions--Balkan Peninsula--Islam, Islam--Balkan Peninsula--Relations--Christianity
...Ferdinand in 1914 by the Serb Gavrilo Princip complement each other, and provide...But the end did come when Gavrilo Princip aimed his pistol and shot and...remains that the shots fired by Gavrilo Princip proved to be the catalyst for...
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The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements
Book by Lewis S. Feuer; Basic Books, 1969
Subjects: Conflict Of Generations, Student Movements--History
...THREE Gavrilo Princip: The Bosnian Student Movement...in June 1914 by the student Gavrilo Princip, working as a member of a three-student...with images of assassination. Gavrilo Princip acted out the heroic politics...
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Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Book by Richard Frucht; Garland Pub., 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Encyclopedias
...the northern zone. Maize corn is the principal cereal in most of the Balkans. Potatoes...Cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs are the principal farm animals. War, depression, and the...participants in the 1918 assembly set out six principles on which the new Greater Romania would...
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The Coming of the First World War
Book by R. J. W. Evans, Hartmut Pogge Von Strandman; Clarendon Press, 1990
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Causes
...assassination, in the summer of 1916, Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Ferdinand...Vienna in 1926, under the title Gavrilo Princips Bekenntnisse , the Confessions of Gavrilo Princip. In a large library of books on the...
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Sarajevo: A Study in the Origins of the Great War
Book by R. W. Seton-Watson; Hutchinson, 1926
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Causes
...irrevocably involved in a real conflict of principle with Serbia. The insurrection of the...Ringstrasse, in Vienna; and one of Kallays principal subordinates in the Bosnian Ministry...he almost certainly agreed to it in principle, as part of a bargain involving the Straits...
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journal articles on: Princip Gavrilo  - 15 results

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In the City of Lost Souls
Journal article by David M. Berman; Social Studies, Vol. 86, 1995
Subjects: History--Study And Teaching
...knowledge of her notorious son, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, who assassinated...to Sarajevo on Vidovdan. Gavrilo Princips deed was commemorated for future...this place on 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip expressed, with his shots, a...
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From Sarajevo to September 11: The Future of Globalization
Journal article by John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge; Policy Review, 2003
Subjects: Al-Qaeda--International aspects, Bin Laden, Osama--International aspects, Globalization--Forecasts, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001--International aspects
...wife by a Serbian fanatic called Gavrilo Princip--set off a sickening train of...a man, and millions of others, Gavrilo Princips two shots marked a turning point...integrated than it was before Princip stepped out of the crowd in Sarajevo...
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Why is the Twentieth Century the Century of Genocide?
Journal article by Mark Levene, Eric Hobsbawn, Gil Eliot, John King Fairbank, Leo Kuper; Journal of World History, Vol. 11, 2000
Subjects: World History--Periodicals
...of young terrorists, alongside Gavrilo Princip, who had planned the assassination...Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Unlike Princip, however, Cubrilovic survived the...Nations charter is based on the principle of non-interference and that UN...
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Roots of Bosnian Realities
Journal article by George W. Gawrych; Military Review, Vol. 77, 1997
Subjects: Bosnia-Hercegovina, History, Minority & ethnic groups, Peacekeeping forces, Territorial issues, United States
...tactics. The political culture of violence spawned the emergence of the hero-martyr-assassin figure, men such as Gavrilo Princip who murdered Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, sparking World War ls outbreak. Serbia had its share...
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Why Is the Twentieth Century the Century of Genocide?
Journal article by Mark Levene; Journal of World History, Vol. 2, 2000
Subjects: World History
...of young terrorists, alongside Gavrilo Princip, who had planned the assassination...Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Unlike Princip, however, Cubrilovic survived the...Nations charter is based on the principle of non-interference and that UN...
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magazine articles on: Princip Gavrilo  - 15 results

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From the Heart of the Heart of the Former Yugoslavia
Magazine article by Ljiljana Smajlovic; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 19, Summer 1995
Subjects: Civil war--Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ethnic relations--Analysis, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina--Military aspects
...would never make it past the Gavrilo Princip Bridge," he declared, referring...Croatia. Whether hero or assassin, Gavrilo Princip would have to rest in peace...attacked the plaque honoring Gavrilo Princips world-transforming act. The...
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The Patriot Game
Magazine article by Alexander Cockburn; The Nation, Vol. 253, July 29, 1991
Subjects: Finland, Latin language--Usage, Radio programs--Europe, Telecommunications systems
...drove by. Then Vesels schoolmate Gavrilo Princip tossed the bomb that killed the...weeks later. Vesel said that Princip had joined the conspiracy because...This is somewhat contradicted by Princips demeanor in court. When the judge...
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The End of the Old World
Magazine article by Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn; National Review, Vol. 36, August 24, 1984
Subjects: Austria--History, Europe--Political aspects, World War I, 1914-1918--History
...of the beginning of World War I. On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne. Princips bullets sparked World War I, and thereby also signaled...
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Frailty in Sarajevo
Magazine article by Salil Tripathi; New Statesman, Vol. 137, August 11, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Cellist of Sarajevo (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, The Lazarus Project (Novel)--Book reviews
...a sniper shot down two young women, a Serb and a Bosnian, plunging the city into war, and the Latin Bridge, where Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand. You can see the ski slope where Radovan Karadzic held court, pointing out the sites...
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The Risks of Victory: An Historian's Provocation
Magazine article by Paul W. Schroeder; The National Interest, Winter 2001
Subjects: Historians--Attitudes, International relations--History, Terrorism--Political aspects, United States--Military policy, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001--Political aspects
...mostly Bosnian students--led by Gavrilo Princip. (1) A widespread network of...it and carrying it out were Gavrilo Princip and his small group of co-terrorists...national or religious enemy. It was Gavrilo Princips calculation, and he was far...
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newspaper articles on: Princip Gavrilo  - 15 results

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Assassin's Lingering End; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 10, 2004
Subjects: Princip, Gavrilo
...QUESTION Many articles say Gavrilo Princip, who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand...the case, or was he executed? GAVRILO PRINCIP was born in July 1894 in Bosnia-Herzegovina...head of the Black Hand, sent Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko...
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GUN THAT STARTED WWI; Amazing Tale of the Priest and a Pistol That Vanished for 90 Years
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2004
Subjects: Princip, Gavrilo
...Standing just four feet away, Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Serb nationalist...extraordinary as the war it triggered. Gavrilo Princip was a member of a group of disgruntled...and it was at this moment that Princip suddenly found himself alongside...
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America as Paper Tiger
Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, October 9, 2001
...Arnold Beichman On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Serb, assassinated...between the two terrorists is that Princip didnt know his act would precipitate...issue is whether this established principle of responsibility justifies enforcement...
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July 1914 Redux? History Could Repeat Itself
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 25, 2007
...Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie were shot to death in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip. During the next month, that assassination would spark World War I, in part due to a comedy of tragic errors, including...
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Mendacious Rhetoric
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 11, 2007
Subjects: Milosevic, Slobodan
...Milosevics Serbia during the 1990s against its fellow federal units of the former Yugoslavia. A Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, triggered World War I in 1914. Another Serbian nationalist, Mr. Milosevic, the Butcher, concluded the past century...
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encyclopedia articles on: Princip Gavrilo  - 2 results

 
 
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Princip, Gavrilo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PRINCIP, GAVRILO gav relo pren tsep, 1895 1918, Serbian political agitator, b. Bosnia...Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo in 1914. His act precipitated World War I. Princip died of tuberculosis in an Austrian prison. He remains a Serbian hero...
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Francis Ferdinand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...general of the armies. On June 28, 1914, while at Sarajevo on an inspection tour, he and his wife were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip , a Serbian nationalist. Francis Ferdinands death was the occasion for the Austrian ultimatum, addressed to Serbia...


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