The Treaty of Berlin had brought to…

The Treaty of Berlin had brought to Bosnia and Herzegovina a period of manipulation by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The empire has suppressed Muslim and Orthodox opposition to the occupation and introduced an orderly administration, but it has retained the feudal system because Bosnia and Herzegovina technically remain Turkish states.

Seeking to increase the Catholic population of Bosnia, Vienna has sent Austrian, Hungarian, Croatian, and Polish administrators, and colonized northern Bosnia with Catholic Slavs and Germans.

The administrator of the regions, Baron Benjamin Kállay (1882-1903) has fostered economic growth, reduced lawlessness, improved sanitation, built roads and railways, and established schools.

However, Kállay, a Hungarian, has exploited strong nationalist differences among the Muslim Slavs, Catholic Croats, and Orthodox Serbs.

Nationalist differences have reached the point of explosion by the turn of the century.