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Why did the Austro-Hungarian Empire annex the territories of present-day Bosnia in 1908? I heard that it angered Serbian nationalists who then killed the archduke Franz Ferdinand and that was the trigger for the first world war, but I don't know if I'm right

by /u/HOOBBIDON in /r/AskHistorians

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