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Institution

Young Bosnia

A grand, ornate interior with a large arched window emitting warm light, flanked by red-framed windows and stone walls, leading to a double door adorned with portraits.

A loose movement of revolutionary South Slav youth — students, schoolboys, apprentices — that crystallised in Habsburg-ruled Bosnia after the 1908 annexation. They read Mazzini, Bakunin, and Russian nihilist literature, and treated political assassination as a legitimate weapon against imperial rule. Most were teenagers. Princip joined while at school in Sarajevo and was later trained in Belgrade by officers tied to the Black Hand.

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