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The Drina Bridge of the Bosnian Eastern Railway, photograph, before 1917

The photo shows one of the infrastructural measures undertaken by the Austro-Hungarian administration in “underdeveloped” Bosnia

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    Bosnia and Austria’s aspirations in the Balkans

    The government in Vienna sought to prevent Russia from establishing itself as the protector of the orthodox Balkan Slavs. The Habsburg Balkan policy therefore aimed at strengthening the Austrian presence in the Balkan ‘powder keg’. It was thwarted in doing so by the rise of Serbia as a regional power.