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THE MIGRATION MOVEMENTS
OF THE BOSNIAN AN HERZEGOVINA
EMIGRANTS ACROSS SERBIA AT THE END OF THE 19th
AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY

In politics of Serbia towards Bosnia and Herzegovina during the last deca-
de of the 19th century certain place had Bosnian and Herzegovina emigration in
Belgrade, in which instead the Serbs were the Bosnians of proserbian orientation.
Problems in relations between Serbia and Austro-Hungarian were represented by
the fact that Serbian government accepted this emigration to have »with their
help an open question of occupied provinces«. In Belgrade, the Bosnian emi-
grants founded committee, called »Bosnian government« at the end of 1889.
Their task was to organize agitations in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the
Austro-Hungarian administration. The Serbian government followed and helped
the work of this committee and trough the Bosnian and Herzegovina emigrants
hankered after approach of the Bosnian political movement in Bosnia and Herze-
govina with Serbian.
Between the Bosnian emigrants in Belgrade after a break of the Herzegovi-
na rebel in 1882 were emphasized: Dervi{-beg and Jusuf-beg Ljubovi} from Neve-
sinje, Mehmed Spahi} and among them was Sulejman ef. Halad`i} imam from
Mostar nominated for mufti in Belgrade. The emigrants were active cooperators
of the »Bosnian and Herzegovina glasnik« published from 1895. Its purpose was
to undermine and to crash down the Austro-Hungarian administration in Bosnia
and Herzegovina. Even Bosnian and Herzegovina emigration aspired to increase
in the strong factor of struggle for liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it s poli-
tical ranges were very modest because of its minority and because of limitations
placed by the Serbian government extorted with constant pressure of Austro-
-Hungarian. The new Serbian government reestablished in October 1897. good
relations with Austro-Hungarian and that limited possibilities of the emigration
for it s intensive work. The Bosnian emigrants in Belgrade did not avoid destiny
of frictions, moral breakages, identity crisis and frequent changes of convictions,
material poverty and throwing of from persons that accepted them but used them
in political purposes.
Many of the Bosnian and Herzegovina emigrants passed by Serbia toward
inland of the Ottoman Empire. Instigated by the Serbian government and press, the
Bosnian emigrations temporary situated in Belgrade demonstrated on the streets of
Belgrade in July 1891 against the Austro-Hungarian administration in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Numerous emigrants applied for help from the Serbian Ministry of
Engineering, because they sough free railway tickets to Ottoman border but they