322
Africa, colonial rivalries in 121, 125, 128, 129, 133, 134, 135, 138, 141, 142â3, 145, 155, 158, 166, 180, 335, 336
   Fashoda incident (1898) 132, 133, 164
   see also Libya; Morocco; South Africa
Agadir crisis (1911) 162, 196, 204â213, 220â21, 227, 228, 233, 234, 241, 295, 326, 334, 441, 536
Agence Havas (news agency) 230, 550
Agram (Zagreb) 68, 87â8, 425
air warfare 243â4, 479
Albania:
   Austro-Italian interests 93, 247
   Balkan Wars (1912-13) 42, 112â13, 253, 255, 256â7, 282, 283â4
   independence question 282, 283â5, 357, 461, 557
   monarchy 170
   Montenegrin occupation 283, 284â5, 330
   Ottoman control 245
   political instability 114, 452
   Serbian Empire (14th century) 21
   Serbian occupation 97â8, 112, 113, 253, 256â7, 282, 284, 285â8, 292, 330, 357, 393, 484
Albert I, King of the Belgians 550
Albertini, Luigi 385, 415, 459, 460, 463, 468, 522, 565 n 12, 575 n 151, 642 n 30
Alekseev, Evgenii Ivanovich 176â7
Alessio (Lezhë) 283
Alexandar I, King of Serbia:
   assassination 3â5, 11â13, 14â15, 19â20, 79, 460
   reign 7â11, 14, 17â18, 79â80
Alexandar, Crown Prince of Serbia ( later King Alexandar I of Yugoslavia) 40, 46, 257, 431, 460, 461
Alexandar KaradjordjeviÄ, Prince of Serbia 6, 21
Alexander III, Tsar 127â8, 128â9, 130, 227
Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina 173
Alexandria 243
Alexandria (yacht) 442, 443
Algeciras conference (1906) 157, 194, 196, 199, 231
Alsace-Lorraine 124, 131, 133, 135, 294, 351, 448â9
Altai mountains 554
Ambassadorsâ Conference (London 1912-13) 284â5, 321, 325, 495
   peace treaty 285
Anastasia, Princess of Montenegro 447â8, 475
Anatolia 336
Anatolian Railway 145, 251, 335â6, 337
Andrássy, Gyula 66
Anglo-Congolese Treaty (1894) 145
Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902) 138â9, 545
Anglo-Russian Convention (1907) 87, 111, 123, 139â40, 158, 167, 174, 187â8, 322â4, 325â6, 363, 536, 545â6
Angola 142
Apis see DimitrijeviÄ, Dragutin
Ardennes 494, 547
Armstrong (shipbuilders) 485
Artamonov, Victor 411â12
Asia, colonial rivalries in 121, 125, 129, 137â41, 142, 153, 158, 322, 546
   see also China; India
Asquith, Herbert Henry ( later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith):
   and assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 490
   Irish Question 488, 489
   July 1914 crisis and outbreak of war 491, 493, 494, 535, 539, 541, 542, 544, 545, 552, 561â2
   and Lloyd Georgeâs Mansion House speech (1911) 210
   relations with Grey 200, 202, 203
   relations with Wilson 489
   Relugas Compact (1905) 202
Assad, Bashar al- 559
Associazione Nazionalista Italiana 226
Austria-Hungary:
   Agram-Friedjung treason trials (1909) 88â90, 99, 231, 260, 408, 445, 454
   Austro-German Dual Alliance (1879) 293, 296, 297
   constitution 65â6, 69, 70, 84, 100â101, 108â9
   conventions and trade treaties with Serbia 28â9, 29â30, 33, 79, 94, 228
   declaration of war against Serbia (28 July 1914) 469â70, 510
   economy 66, 69â70, 292, 350, 357, 578 n 12
   elections 67, 87
   impact of Balkan Wars 99â100, 281â92, 559
   industrialization 69â70, 350
   Mediterranean Agreement (1887) 121â2, 126
   Military Chancellery 107â8
   nationalities problem 66â9, 70â72, 81â2, 108â9, 292, 357
   occupation and annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina 18, 24, 33â8, 62, 73â6, 79, 83â7, 109, 177, 188, 231, 258â9, 273
   âpig warâ with Serbia (1906-9) 29, 31,