In enemy states such as Serbia and Montenegro, Habsburg authorities introduced bans on some cultural symbols, including the Cyrillic alphabet. In the occupied countries its army sought to counter enemy influence. Austria-Hungary occupied Montenegro as well as parts of Serbia and Albania during the First World War. With the Ottomans, saw the establishment of Serbian rule as occupation.Īustria-Hungaty incorporated parts of the Balkans and the Adriatic coast where it had long faced the Ottoman Empire only to have the Ottoman opposition replaced by Italy, Russia, and Serbia during the nineteenth century. Serbian and Montenegrin troops as liberators, most Albanians, who had sided While the decimated and discriminated Serb population greeted the Montenegro took possesion of half of the Rascia area and the whole of In October 1912, Serbia liberated most of Old Serbia, while Was the most popular war in Serbia’s history as it was seen as avenging theġ389 Battle of Kosovo which had sealed the Ottoman penetration into the Serbia before the First Balkan War had ended in failure. Serbia to reach a peaceful agreement with Muslim Albanian leaders in Old Population at the end of the nineteenth century, was dramatically aggravatedĭue to Muslim Albanians' tribal anarchy, Austria-Hungary's pro-AlbanianĪgitation and, after 1908, frequent Albanian rebellions. Position of Christian Orthodox Serbs, who accounted for a half of the Muslims and Christians expanded into national conflict after the 1878Īlbanian League had claimed the entire “Old Serbia for Greater Albania”. Whereas the Christian Orthodox Serbs and their villages were attacked and Old Serbia (fromġ877 onwards the vilayet of Kosovo) was dominated by local Albanian pashas, Out of her borders were dubbed Old Serbia - Kosovo, Metohija, Rascia (theįormer sanjak of Novi Pazar and the neighbouring areas).

After the restoration of Serbia in 1830, the areas of medieval Serbia left

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