U TROUGLU VELIKIH SILA: BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA TOKOM PRVOG SRPSKOG USTANKA (1804–1813)
BETWEEN THE GREAT POWERS: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE FIRST SERBIAN UPRISING (1804–1813)

Summary/Abstract: The interests of three great Powers: Austria, France and Russia coincided during the First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813) in the Bosnian pashaluk to a much larger extent than in the Pashaluk of Belgrade. Foreign policy of France towards the Serbs during the First Serbian Uprising was pro-Ottoman. Both Austria and France feared the rebels in Bosnia might ally with the rebels in the Pashaluk of Belgrade and connect with Russia. It was a dangerous game for Austria that Karađorđe played with involving not only Bosnian Serbs in the rebel movement, but Catholics in Bosnia as well. That was the reason Austria made the most effort of any European power to extinguish the fire of rebellion in Bosnia. The Ottoman integrity was more important to Vienna, certainly more important than the position of Christians on the south-eastern borders of Austria.

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