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Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia, and this angered the Serbs (as well as Russia).
In the late 1800's, as the Ottoman Empire was crumbling, the major European powers got together and decided what to do about it. The result was the Treaty of Berlin, which, among other things, gave Austria-Hungary control over Bosnia, even though it was technically still ruled by the Ottoman Empire. The treaty also officially made Serbia an independent nation (although Serbia already was largely independent, and had been for a while).
The Ottoman Empire continued to collapse; it couldn't control the territory it ruled. In 1908, there was a revolution, and the Sultan was overthrown by a group commonly called the Young Turks. Right afterward, Bulgaria took advantage of the situation and declared their independence. Austria-Hungary took advantage of both of these events, and announced that they were formally annexing Bosnia.
Most countries were upset with this, and Austria-Hungary's move was condemned by them. Serbia in particular was upset because they had hoped to eventually take control of Bosnia. The Bosnian people have a similar culture, language, and history to Serbia (and they are both related to the Russian people as well, so Russia tends to be very friendly towards Serbia especially), and it seemed natural for Bosnia and Serbia to join as a single country. Austria-Hungary taking control of it would make that far more difficult, as Austria-Hungary was a very large and powerful country.
This "Bosnian Crisis" was one of the many factors that led to World War I breaking out in 1914. Although Russia and Serbia were very upset about the annexation, they didn't do much about it at the time. When World War I was about to start, Russia decided to actually do something rather than let Austria-Hungary attack Serbia in retaliation for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
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The 1908 the serbs became furious when?
Austria-Hungary annexed Bosina.
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They invaded Bosnia who at the time were rather close allies of Serbia. This made Serbia angry and thus forth they contacted Russia who were allies with Serbia. Russia then said that if Austria-Hungary do anything to Serbia, Russia will have to react. Then after the assassination A-H shelled the capital of Serbia and that started the war.
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In 1878 Bosnia-Herzegovina, which had previously been part of the Ottoman Empire, became an Austrian protectorate - not an integral part of Austria-Hungary. The area was inhabited by Muslims, (Othordox) Serbs and (Roman Catholic) Croats. It was a potentially explosive mixture - and was claimed by Serbia. Matters were further complicated by meaningless residual Ottoman rights. Austria saw Serbia as an irritant: it was strongly Pan-Slav and enjoyed support from Russia; worst of all, it became aggressive, expansionist and pretentious. However, from about 1893-1903 the King of Serbia to a large extent did as the Austrians told him. He and his consort were savagely murdered in 1903 by a small clique of army officers and the Black Hand gang. (The couple's hideously mutliated corpses were found in the palace grounds). From 1903 Serbia became increasingly assertive and there was no longer any question of the country doing Austria's bidding. In 1908, at the time of the Young Turk revolution in Constantinople, the Austrian government exploited the chaos in Turkey to annex B-H outright and make it a province. This indicated that Austria wanted to keep the area and not simply 'protect' it from Russia. It also mean that Austria was trying to prevent Serbia expanding and reaching the sea.
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