Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina Kondominijum Bosna i Hercegovina (Serbo-Croatian) Кондоминијум Босна и Херцеговина (Serbian Cyrillic) Kondominium Bosnien und Herzegowina (German) Bosznia-Hercegovinai Kondomínium (Hungarian) | |||||||||
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| 1878–1918 | |||||||||
Bosnia and Herzegovina (shown in blue) within Austria-Hungary (shown in pink and green) | |||||||||
| Status | Condominium between Austria and Hungary | ||||||||
| Capital and largest city | Sarajevo | ||||||||
| Official languages | German and Hungarian | ||||||||
| Common languages | Serbo-Croatian | ||||||||
| Government | Constitutional Monarchy | ||||||||
| Emperor-King of Austria-Hungary | |||||||||
• 1878–1916 | Franz Joseph I | ||||||||
• 1916–1918 | Charles I | ||||||||
| Joint Minister of Finance | |||||||||
• 1878–1880 (first) | Leopold von Hofmann | ||||||||
• 1918 (last) | Alexander Spitzmüller | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1878 (first) | Josip Filipović | ||||||||
• 1914–1918 (last) | Stjepan Sarkotić | ||||||||
| Legislature | Diet (after 1910) | ||||||||
| Historical era | New Imperialism / WWI | ||||||||
| 13 July 1878 | |||||||||
| 7 October 1908 | |||||||||
| 1 December 1918 | |||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1879 | 1,184,164 | ||||||||
• 1885 | 1,336,091 | ||||||||
• 1895 | 1,568,092 | ||||||||
• 1910 | 1,898,044 | ||||||||
| Currency | Kruna | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro | ||||||||
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Bosnia and Herzegovina fell under Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878, when the Congress of Berlin approved the occupation of the Bosnia Vilayet, which officially remained part of the Ottoman Empire. Three decades later, in 1908, Austria-Hungary provoked the Bosnian Crisis by formally annexing the occupied zone, establishing the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the joint control of Austria and Hungary.