The spot of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Today, while on a college trip to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, I visited the spot where Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie were assassinated by Bosnian-Serb Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914, leading directly to the outbreak of the First World War between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.

The assassination took place on the street corner by the Latin Bridge along the then-called Appel Quay in the Old Town of Sarajevo. I will not go into further detail with the history of the assassination in this post, as I will do so in 3 months time anyways.

On the 2nd picture we see the exact spot where Gavrilo Princip was standing when firing the two lethal shots hitting Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.

On the 4th picture, the four golden rectangles mark the four wheels of the car (The road was wider in 1914 than today).

The rest of the pictures were taken inside the small Sarajevo Museum on the street corner, exhibiting the history of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878, when the country transitioned from Ottoman to Austro-Hungarian rule, to the assassination in 1914.

It was a huge experience being at the spot where the fate of Europe and the rest of the world was jeopardized on that fateful day in 1914. Thank you for reading and for following 🙏🇧🇦

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