Mapping Modernity

11. Situationsplan Sarajevo

25 October 2023

Map of Sarajevo

World War I marked the end of a relatively stable period in Europe. This map of Sarajevo features a prominent red X, marking the precise location where Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip carried out his fateful assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914. A month later, Austria-Hungary launched an invasion of Serbia in retaliation.

A. Hartleben, Situationsplan der Landeshauptstad Sarajevo, in: Reiserouten in Bosnien und der Herzegovina, Wien 1898. Coll. S/T G.26, 35.5 x 73 cm.