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page no. 024
Falcon as a symbol of freedom. Croatia - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes. Issue for Croatia
Following the assassination of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand by the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip and the outbreak of World War I, Serbia was invaded and occupied by a combined Bulgarian, Austrian and German force on 6 October 1915. This saw the escalation of South Slavic nationalism and calls by Slavic nationalists for the independence and unification of the South Slavic nationalities of Austria-Hungary along with Serbia and Montenegro into a single State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs
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