Serbia was involved in the Yugoslav Wars in the period between 1991 and 1999 - the war in Slovenia, the war in Croatia, the war in Bosnia and the war in Kosovo. During this period, Slobodan Miloevi was the authoritarian leader of Serbia, which was in turn part of the Federal Republic ...
Sophie, in June of 1914, but trouble was present in Europe before the attempt on Ferdinand's life. Conflicts in the Balkans between Russia, Austria-Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina were escalating, and Great Britain's naval supremacy was being threatened...
Commercial “war” games in a post-1989 setting are popular among a large audience. They offer players an enjoyable gameplay experience, while also referring to contemporary “war” scenarios. As such, they have been studied in several ways, e.g., concerning the “realistic” nature of how ...
In 1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina was also seeking independence. At the time, Bosnia was populated by three groups of people – Bosnian Croats (~15%, Roman Catholics), Bosnian Serbs (~30%, Serbian Orthodox Christians), and Bosnian Muslims (~50%, Islam). The Bosnian seat of government in t...
Produced by David Starner and Andrea Ball THE BALKAN WARS 1912-1913 JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN THIRD EDITION 1916 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The interest in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 has exceeded the expectations of the publishers of this volume. The first edition, which was published five mon...
in Egypt; Army clerk Julian Evans was held for hours with two colleagues by gun-toting Serbs while serving as part of Britain's peacekeeping force in Bosnia; weapons engineer Ron Sheppard survived when his Royal Navy ship was hit by Argentine bombs and cannon shells during the Falklands War,...
In the 1990s, the world watched in horror as Bosnia disintegrated. Around 100,000 died as civilians were ethnically cleansed from their homelands. The 1995 Dayton Accords stopped the bloodshed by creating two “states within a state”: Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Bosniaks and Croats, Republik...
Of course, the marketers involved no doubt know this. Their quarry is not the average household but the smaller group of heavy users of long-distance. Actually, price war is not exactly what long-distance marketers are dabbling in even now, at any rate, as long as their offerings defy ...
When some search for the roots of the First World War, there is a tendency to look towards the Balkans. After all, it was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Sarajevo in 1914 that precipitated the kick-off
International circumstances were of considerable importance.Austria-Hungaryhad in October 1908annexedBosnia and Herzegovina, territory that was legally part of the Ottoman Empire but under Austro-Hungarian occupation and administration after theCongress of Berlin(1878). The Austro-Hungarian government, moreov...