A KINGDOM AGAIN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 831, 1 June 1910, Page 5

A KINGDOM AGAIN.

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. CORDIAL RECEPTION TO THE EMPEROR. By TeleirraDh-Press AsEodalioii-Copyrtehl (Eec. May 31, 0.10 p.m.) Vienna, May 31. Great enthusiasm . and excitement have been caused in Bosnia-Herzegovina by a report that the Emperor of Austria intends to raiso it to the status of a kingdom, thereby re-establishing the kingdom destroyed by the Turks in 1<63. Tho Emperor was given a cordial reception at Sarajevo. TURKS AND SERVIANS. Bosnia-Herzegovina, vchicli had since the Treaty of Berlin iu 1878 been occupied and administered by Austria-Hun-gary was in October, 1908, formally annexed to .the Empire. Its population is about 1,737,000. Croato-Servians form tho largest racial element in the population, but there are 519,000 Mohammedans and 334,000 Roman Catholics. The capital, Sarajevo, has a population of 38,000. Bosnia was at first dependent on the Servian and Croatian kings, but was raised for a time to a separate principality, which reverted about 1339 to tho Servian King Stephen. After his death it was again independent, and continued to have its own rulers till the latter half of the fifteenth century, in spite of the encroachments of the Turks, who at last succeeded in incorporating it ir. 1503. Tho Hungarians long disputed this appropriation, but tho country was definitely ceded to Turkey at the Peace of Carlovitz, in 1099, which was confirmd by the Treaty of Sistovar in 1791.