this nationalisation process set up the process just the last interview session. little by little the ottoman millets were transformed into nations nations whose foundations were religious identity and language the balkans remain shaped by these factors today. in bosnia a slavic people sharing the same slavic language split into opposing nations orthodox christians declared themselves to be serbs whereupon muslims demanded their own identity not serbs or ottomans but bosniaks. the rebellion broke out among serbian peasants in rural bosnia eight hundred