Black Hand

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The Black Hand was a secret Serbian nationalist organization in the early 20th century that used terrorism and political violence to promote the creation of a Greater Serbia.

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Observed surface forms (2)

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Black Hand organization 1
The Black Hand 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Serbian nationalist organization
paramilitary organization
secret society
activeIn Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED
Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Serbia NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Unification or Death NERFINISHED
composedOf Serbian army officers
Serbian nationalists
country Kingdom of Serbia NERFINISHED
dateOfNotableOperation 28 June 1914
dissolutionCause Salonika trial NERFINISHED
dissolved 1917
founded 1911
foundedBy Dragutin Dimitrijević NERFINISHED
goal creation of a Greater Serbia
unification of South Slavs under Serbian leadership
headquartersLocation Belgrade NERFINISHED
ideology Pan-Serbism
Serbian nationalism
influencedEvent July Crisis of 1914 NERFINISHED
outbreak of World War I
languageOfName Serbian
leader Dragutin Dimitrijević NERFINISHED
leaderAliasOfMember Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis NERFINISHED
membershipType secret membership
method assassination
political violence
terrorism
nativeName Ujedinjenje ili smrt NERFINISHED
notableOperation assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
operatingPeriodEnd 1917
operatingPeriodStart 1911
opposedOrganization Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED
Austro-Hungarian administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED
organizationalStructure clandestine cells
placeOfNotableOperation Sarajevo NERFINISHED
recruitedMember Gavrilo Princip NERFINISHED
Nedeljko Čabrinović NERFINISHED
Trifko Grabež NERFINISHED
supportedBy Serbian military intelligence officers
elements of the Serbian Army
symbol bomb
dagger
poison bottle
skull and crossed bones
trialResult leaders executed in 1917
usedFrontOrganization Young Bosnia NERFINISHED

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Latin Bridge associatedWith Black Hand
this entity surface form: Black Hand organization
Stephan Talty notableWork Black Hand
this entity surface form: The Black Hand