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He died in what was technically a "province" of Austria-Hungary, actually the disputed Balkan region known as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Though still nominally a part of the Turkish Empire, it had been ceded under the Congress of Berlin.

When Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on June 28, 1914, they were visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (which had been occupied by Austria-Hungary in 1878 after 400 years under the Ottoman Empire). The separatists who killed him wanted to form an independent Slavic state, and were encouraged and armed by Serbia.

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was archduke of Austria. He was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

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