POLOŽAJ BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE ZA VRIJEME AUSTROUGARSKE UPRAVE (DRŽAVNOPRAVNI ODNOSI)
THE POSITION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA DURING THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ADMINISTRATION (STATE-LEGAL RELATIONSHIP)

Summary/Abstract: The international position of Bosnia and Herzegovina remained undefined until annexion of 1908 and was grounded in relation to Austria and Turkey on the 25th Article of the Berlin Treaty of 1878 and the Austro-Hungarian — Turkish convention of April 21, 1879. The endeavours of Austro-Hungary were directed towards recognition of her colonial possession and transformation of occupation into annexion. Austrian difficulties in bringing about annexion did not originate so much from the world powers as from the inner relationships within the Monarchy itself. Relationships based on international law gradually gave way to the relationships based on state law. The issue of turning occupation into annexion was dealt with by the Dual Government several times, in June and October 1882, in August 189G, and in 1877 and finally on the eve of annexion, 1908. The Monarchy as a whole and its constituent parts, Austria and Hungary, considered that in the new possession they should have a colony of its kind which was to make up for the losses in Italy and Germany. The position of Bosnia and Herzegovina in relation to Monarchy as well as to Austria and Hungary as her administrative halves was regulated by the law which was passed in December 1879 including Bosnia and Herzegovina into the commercial system of the Monarchy, and by the law of February 1880, the so called »Bosnian Law«. The latter regulated a provisory which guaranteed Austria and Hungary ingerencies to all affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina. By this state of affairs were not satisfied Hungarians in the first place, who endeavoured to get Bosnia and Herzegovina exclusively for themselves, or at least one part of the new possession.

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