International Academic Conference 150 years since the Herzegovina Uprising: impact on regional security and European geopolitics, June 10-11, 2025, Belgrade [pp. 91-97]
АУТОР(И) / AUTHOR(S): Marko Babić 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46793/Herzegovina.091B
САЖЕТАК /ABSTRACT:
The Herzegovina Uprising (1875-1878) was not only an expression of the Serbian people’s desire for freedom and liberation from Turkish rule. It was par excellence a question of security and protection of biological survival and their rights as a people.
Serbs and other Slavic peoples in the region at that time did not have their own sovereign state – they did not have any state. Therefore, the Herzegovinian uprising is just one example in the long history of the Serbian people that without their own state, self-sustainability is questionable. The consequence of the uprising and the wars waged against the Ottoman Empire was the Berlin Congress of 1878, at which Montenegro and Serbia gained independence and certain territorial expansions, but not Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was occupied by Austria-Hungary, although it de jure remained part of the Ottoman Empire. The Serbs in what was then Bosnia and Herzegovina, still remained without their own state and with Austria-Hungary as the new occupying and colonial power.
КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:
Herzegovina Uprising, statehood, regional security. Western Balkans
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