HungaryandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
3 SHARED EVENTSSerbia

Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · HUN LEFT · SRB RIGHT

1. 1402–1459

   The Serbian Despotate

   A reduced Serbian state survived as the Despotate, ruled latterly from Smederevo and balancing between the Ottomans and Hungary, prolonging Serb statehood for another half-century.

   Politics & Power · from the Serbia chronicle · The Battle of Kosovo and the Ottoman Conquest · REFS 1 — Serbia: History

2. 1912–1913

   The Balkan Wars

   Serbia drove the Ottomans from most of their European lands and, after the Second Balkan War, gained Kosovo, Metohija and much of Macedonia, nearly doubling its territory and alarming Austria-Hungary.

   War & Rupture · from the Serbia chronicle · The Serbian Revolution and the Road to Independence · REFS 1 — Serbia: History

3. 28 Jun 1914

   Assassination at Sarajevo

   The Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo; Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia, and its declaration of war triggered the First World War.

   War & Rupture · from the Serbia chronicle · The Serbian Revolution and the Road to Independence · REFS 1 — Serbia: History