biography
pronunciation:
[printsip]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1918)
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| biography:
| Nationalist and revolutionary, born in Obljaj, W Bosnia. He was a member of a secret Serbian terrorist organization known as the ‘Black Hand’, dedicated to the achievement of independence for the South Slav peoples from the Austro-Hungarian empire. In June 1914, he and a group of young zealots assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie on a visit to Sarajevo. The murder precipitated World War 1, Austria declaring war on Serbia in July. Princip died in an Austrian prison. |
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