AUSTROUGARSKI PLANOVI GRADNJE STRATEŠKIH ŽELJEZNICA NA BALKANU UOČI KRETSKE KRIZE I IZGRADNJA ŽELJEZNIČKE PRUGE PREMA BOKI KOTORSKOJ, TREBINJU I DUBROVNIKU
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PLANS FOR THE BUILDING OF STRATEGIC RAILWAYS ON THE BALKANS ON THE EVE OF THE CRETE CRISIS AND THE BUILDING OF THE RAILWAY LINE TOWARDS BOKA KOTORSKA, TREBINJE AND DUBROVNIK

Summary/Abstract: By the end of 19th century Austro-Hungary had to face the wrong foreign policy situation in the south-east of Europe. It seemed the moment of Turkish decay came and the status quo could not stay any longer on the Balkans. In the summer of 1896, in Wienna, it was seriously calculated upon the possibility of war bursting out with Russia, in which the Monarchy could not reckon upon the aid of the Allies. A measure out of a series undertaken by the Head of the Austro-Hungarian General Headquarters, von Beck, to raise up the fighting efficiency of army, were his demands for the enlargement of capacity of the existing railways as well as the building of new ones, where his attention was first of all paid to to the north-east of the Monarchy, As regards the railway lines in the south, the Head of the General Headquarters insisted upon the linking of the line Zagreb — Rijeka with the Dalmatian ones, and upon the building of railways Banjaluka — Jajce, Mostar — Boka Kotorska and Sarajevo — Višegrad, Reducing complete programme to the most necessary lines at the beginning of 1897, von Beck considered the railway links with Boka Kotorska and the building of the line from Sarajevo to the Drina river particularly urgent, as well as the plans for a railway line from Višegrad to Kosovska Mitrovica.

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