In Bulgaria serfdom was not abrogated in practice until 1880, and in remote Iceland, where about a quarter of the population worked in effect as serfs, it lasted until the legal compulsion for anyone without land to provide labour for a farmer was formally ended in 1894. Only in Bosnia, seized by Austria-Hungary from the Ottomans in 1878 and formally annexed in 1908, did serfdom remain until the First World War;
