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This study investigates the little-researched topic of the organized agricultural colonization of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first half of the 1890s, focusing on its “Czech” element. The goal of this colonization driven by the Austro-Hungarian government was to assist acculturation, population growth and – above all else – the overall economic development of the newly-acquired province. In its own way, this colonization was related to older Austrian projects in the Banat and Slavonia. From this point of view it represents an interesting subject to explore because from a historic and ethnographical point of view it touches upon the history of the Czech economic migration, Czech minorities abroad, and their interaction with the majority societies in Bosnia and Herzegovina.