Gavrilo Princip

Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo onJune 1914. Princip and his accomplices were arrested and implicated several members of the Serbian military, leading AustriaHungary to issue a dmarche to Serbia known as the July Ultimatum. This was used as pretext for AustriaHungarys invasion of Serbia, which then led to World War I. Princip was a Yugoslav nationalist associated with the movement Mlada Bosna which predominantly consisted of Serbs, but also Bosniaks and Croats. During his trial he stated I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be freed from Austria.

Gavrilo Princip was born in the remote hamlet of Obljaj, near Bosansko Grahovo, onJuly1601601894. He was one of nine children, six of whom died in infancy. He was named Gavrilo at the insistence of a local Serbian Orthodox priest, who claimed that naming the sickly infant after the Archangel Gabriel would help him survive.

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