Were Serbia and Bosnia allies before World War 1?
Bosnia was not an independent state, nor died its people have a single political agenda. Bosnia was incorporated in Austria-Hungary at the time (Ottoman empire previously), with a majority Orthodox Christian Serb population, a large religiously Muslim (ethnically Serb/Croat) population, and a small Catholic Christian Croat population. Some people (mostly Serbs and some Muslims) wanted to unify with Serbia. Others (mostly Croats and some Muslims) wanted to stay in Austria-Hungary. Some Muslims would also like Bosnia to be under the Ottoman empire again. Serbia was an independent state that wanted to liberate majority Serb-inhabited Bosnia, but Bosnia was not an independent state and was not ethnically or politically homogeneous, so it couldn’t be an ally of Serbia. Serbia’s allies before WWI were Montenegro, Greece, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom (but particularly Russia, Greece, and Montenegro). Serbia’s historic enemies before WWI and during the war were Austria, Hungary, Germ
