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 | | World War I broke out in August 1914 in the Balkans, after the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia, by a young Serb fanatic, Gavrilo Princip, in the Bosnian capital of SARAJEVO on June 28, 1914. |
 | | We should note that by 1572, most Polish nobles were Calvinists, but this did not last long for the Jesuits had the best schools and so the nobles soon returned to the R.C. faith which became a hallmark of Polishness. |
 | | A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, New York, Oxford, 1992, 2nd edition 2001. |
| web.ku.edu /~eceurope/hist557/lect1-2.htm (6232 words) |
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