Bošnjaci i stvaranje jugoslavenske države 1918. godine
Bosniaks and the Creation of the Yugoslav State in 1918

Author(s): Husnija Kamberović
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bosniaks; Yugoslavia;
Summary/Abstract: The historiographical literature overemphasizes the support of Bosniaks for the creation of a Yugoslav state. The commonplace notion is that Bosniak interests were more truly expressed by the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce (Mehmed Spaho) than by the political leader who was the most influential up to that time (Šerif Arnautović). For a long time Bosniak political leaders held to unclear politics in terms of the postwar position of Bosnia and Hercegovina. In the end, however, the supporters of Yugoslav unification showed themselves to be the dominant force. The proclamation of the formation of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, which included Slovenia, Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia and Hercegovina, was accepted with jubilation among a part of the population of Bosnia and Hercegovina. General Sarkotić, the chief of the Territorial Government of Bosnia and Hercegovina, wrote in his diary (Dnevnik) at the time of its formation: “In Sarajevo itself the happiness of the Serbs appears exaggerated, it seems, to a certain measure to have sobered the Croats and Muslims, but the women and youth show themselves on the streets more in national cockades which then everyone generally wears.”

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