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Why did they assassinate Archduke Francis Fernidad?

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Answer:

He was assassinated to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a new country. That new country Yugoslavia.

Explanation: Assassinated by Princip, who was a member of a Serbian nationalist terrorist group.

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