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Why was Austria interested in the Balkans​

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Austria especially saw the Western Balkans as an economic resource and a potential market. Control of the coast was the key to allowing Austria's foreign trade to pass through the Adriatic Sea, and the empire could ill afford to let that region fall under the control of a hostile Great Power or a growing Balkan nation.

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Their main focus was to free Serbia from foreign control and influence, particularly from Vienna

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