Battle of Sarajevo (1878)

Battle of Sarajevo
	Part of the Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina
	; The storming of the castle of Sarajevo
Date	19 August 1878
Location	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Result	Austro-Hungarian victory
Belligerents
Austria-Hungary	Bosnia Vilayet
Commanders and leaders
Feldzeugmeister Josip Filipović; Oberst Georg Lemaič; General Müller; Fieldmarshall Tegetthoff	Muhamed Hadžijamaković ; Hadži Lojo; Abdulah Kaukčija; Salih Saukčija Tučić; Mehmed Šeremet
Strength
14,000 men; 52 Artillery batteries	6,000 Bosnian soldiers, an unknown number of artillery batteries The entire city's population
Casualties and losses
57 to 3,000 killed; 314 wounded	300 to 3,000+ killed or wounded; Unknown number of civilian casualties

At the end of the Russo-Turkish War during the Congress of Berlin, the Treaty of Berlin was established which in article 25 gave Austria-Hungary the responsibility to occupy and administer the Ottoman provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina indefinitely while it still stayed under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire. A campaign was organized to establish Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 29 July 1878 which saw mostly combat against local resistance fighters supported by the Ottoman Empire. The Austro-Hungarian army ultimately reached Sarajevo on 19 August 1878 and prepared to take the city.