Issue №16. September 2008

Problems of Administration of the Newly Acquired Territory in Modern Times. The Austrian Experience in Bosnia and Hercegovina (1878–1908)

Graduate student, Department of Southern and Western Slavic History, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The article examines the integration experience of Austro-Hungary in the occupied territories of Bosnia and Hercegovina, acquired by the Austrian government in 1878. The author bases her research on the works of Alexey Nickoplaevich Haruzin, an ethnologist and a statesman, particularly on his book “Bosnia-Hercegovina. Essays on the Austro-Hungarian occupied province”.  His attention was focused primarily on the issues of westernization, modernization, secularization and integration of the predominantly Muslim former Ottoman province into the Danube monarchy.

Keywords

Bosnia and Hercegovina, history of Austro-Hungary, A.N. Haruzin, managing the occupied territories in 1878–1918.