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History History of Bosniaks Rulers

Language Bosnian Shtokavian South Slavic Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian)

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The Bosniaks
Bosniaks (Bosnian: Bošnjaci, pronounced [boʃɲǎːtsi]; singular masculine: Bošnjak, feminine: Bošnjakinja) are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group inhabiting mainly the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A native minority of Bosniaks
Bosniaks live in other countries in the Balkans; especially in the Sandžak
Sandžak region of Serbia
Serbia and Montenegro
Montenegro (where Bosniaks
Bosniaks form a regional majority), and in Croatia and Kosovo.[a] Bosniaks
Bosniaks are typically characterized[by whom?] by their historic tie to the Bosnian historical region, traditional majority adherence to Islam
Islam since the 15th and 16th centuries, common culture and Bosnian language. English speakers
English speakers frequently refer to Bosniaks
Bosniaks as Bosnian Muslims[note 2] or simply as Bosnians, though the latter term can also denote all inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (regardless of ethnic origin) or apply to citizenship in the country. Over two million Bosniaks
Bosniaks live in the Balkans, with an estimated additional million settled and living around the world. Ethnic cleansing and genocide during the Bosnian War
Bosnian War (1991–95) have had an effect on the territorial distribution of the population. Partly due to this,[20] a significant Bosniak diaspora
Bosniak diaspora exists in a number of countries, including Austria, Germany, Turkey, Australia, Sweden, Canada
Canada and the United States.

Contents

1 Ethnology

1.1 Ethnonym 1.2 Identity 1.3 Relation to Serb and Croat nationalism 1.4 Origin

2 History

2.1 Middle Ages

2.1.1 Banate of Bosnia
Banate of Bosnia and the Bosnian Church 2.1.2 Expansion and the Bosnian Kingdom

2.2 Islamization and Ottoman era

2.2.1 The rise of the Bosnian national movement

2.3 Austro-Hungarian rule 2.4 Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia and World War II 2.5 Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (1945-1992) 2.6 Bosnian War

3 Language 4 Culture

4.1 Folklore 4.2 Traditions and customs 4.3 Religion 4.4 Surnames and given names 4.5 Symbols

5 Communities

5.1 Diaspora

6 See also 7 Annotations 8 Notes 9 References 10 Sources 11 External links

Ethnology Ethnonym Main article: Name of Bosnia In 1993, "Bosniak" was adopted by the Bosnian Muslim leadership as the name of the Bosnian Muslim nationality.[21] During Yugoslavia, the term "Muslims" (Serbo-Croatian: muslimani) was used for Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslim population.[22] The name of Bosnia (Serbo-Croatian: Bosna) as a polity first appears in the 10th century. The name of the polity of Bosnia as per traditional view in linguistics originated as a hydronym, the name of the Bosna river, believed to be of pre-Slavic origin.[23] The demonym "Bosnians" (as Bošnjani) first appears in the 14th century, to denote the subjects of the Kingdom of Bosnia.[24] The name was adopted by the Ottoman Empire for the Sanjak of Bosnia and Bosnia Eyalet, and during the Ottoman period various Turkish-language variations of the root Bosna were used as a demonym (such as Turkish: Boşnak, Bosnali, Bosnavi). The term "Bosniaks" (Bošnjaci) was adopted as an ethnonym by the Bosnian Muslim leadership in the 20th century, the term having historically denoted all inhabitants of Bosnia, regardless of faith. Identity Bosniaks
Bosniaks are generally defined as the South Slavic nation on the territory of the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia whose members identify themselves with Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina as their ethnic state and are part of such a common nation, and of whom a majority are Muslim by religion. Nevertheless, leaders and intellectuals of the Bosniak community may have various perceptions of what it means to be Bosniak. Some may point to an Islamic
Islamic heritage, while others stress the purely secular and national character of the Bosniak identity and its connection with Bosnian territory and history.[25] Moreover, individuals outside Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina may hold their own personal interpretations as well. Some people, such as Montenegrin Abdul Kurpejović, recognize an Islamic
Islamic component in the Bosniak identity but see it as referring exclusively to the Slavic Muslims
Slavic Muslims in Bosnia.[26] Still others consider all Slavic Muslims
Slavic Muslims in the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (i.e. including the Gorani) to be Bosniaks.[27]

Bosniak Institute, Sarajevo

In Yugoslavia,[28] unlike the preceding Austro-Hungarian Empire,[29] there was no official recognition of Bosniak ethnicity.[30] As a political compromise, the Constitution of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia was amended in 1968 to introduce "Muslims" in a national (as opposed to religious) sense; effectively recognizing a constitutive nation whilst avoiding the recognition of "Bosniak" or "Bosnian" as ethnic or national designations. Prior to this, the great majority of Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims had declared either Ethnically Undecided Muslim or – to a lesser extent – Undecided Yugoslav in censuses pertaining to Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia as the other available options were Serb-Muslim and Croat-Muslim.[31] Although it achieved recognition as a distinct nation by an alternative name, the use of Muslim as an ethnic designation was opposed early on as it sought to label Bosniaks
Bosniaks a religious group instead of an ethnic one. To quote Bosnian president Hamdija Pozderac at the time:

They don't permit Bosnianhood
Bosnianhood but they offer Muslimhood. Let us accept their offer, although the wrong name, but with it we shall start the process. — In discussion with Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito in 1971 on the constitutional changes which recognized "Muslims"[32]

Upon Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the great majority of Bosnian Muslims aligned themselves with the Bosniak identity. In September 1993, at the height of the Bosnian War, the Second Bosniak Congress formed a basis for the official re-establishment of the historical ethnic name Bosniak and deprecation of the former Muslim in use during SFR Yugoslavia.[33] Today, the election law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, recognizes the results from the 1991 population census as results referring to Bosniaks
Bosniaks which are, alongside Bosnian Serbs
Serbs and Bosnian Croats, one of the three constituent nations in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina and the single largest ethnic group in the country. In other ex-Yugoslav countries with significant Slavic Muslim populations, adoption of the Bosniak name has been less consistent. The effects of this phenomenon can best be seen in the censuses. For instance, the 2003 Montenegrin census recorded 48,184 people who registered as Bosniaks
Bosniaks and 28,714 who registered as Muslim by nationality. Although Montenegro's Slavic Muslims
Slavic Muslims form one ethnic community with a shared culture and history, this community is divided on whether to register as Bosniaks
Bosniaks (i.e. adopt Bosniak national identity) or as Muslims by nationality.[26] Similarly, the 2002 Slovenian census recorded 8,062 people who registered as Bosnians, presumably highlighting (in large part) the decision of many secular Bosniaks
Bosniaks to primarily identify themselves in that way (a situation somewhat comparable to the Yugoslav option during the socialist period). However, such people comprise a minority (even in countries such as Montenegro
Montenegro where it is a significant political issue) while the great majority of Slavic Muslims
Slavic Muslims in the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia have adopted the Bosniak national name.

"Muslims/Muslimani" in SFR Yugoslavia

Republic 1971 1981 1991

Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,482,430 (39.6%) 1,630,033 (39.5%) 1,902,956 (43.5%)

Montenegro 70,236 (13.3%) 78,080 (13.4%) 89,614 (14.6%)

Croatia 18,457 (0.4%) 23,740 (0.5%) 43,469 (0.9%)

Macedonia 1,248 (0.1%) 39,512 (2.1%) 35,256 (1.7%)

Slovenia 3,197 (0.2%) 13,425 (0.7%) 26,867 (1.4%)

Serbia 154,364 (1.8%) 215,166 (2.3%) 246,411 (2.5%)

Yugoslavia 1,729,932 (8.4%) 1,999,957 (8.9%) 2,344,573 (10.0%)

Relation to Serb and Croat nationalism As a melting ground for confrontations between different religions, national mythologies, and concepts of statehood, much of the historiography of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina has since the 19th century been the subject of competing Serb and Croat nationalist claims part of wider Serbian and Croatian hegemonic aspirations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, inherently interwoven into the complex nature of the Bosnian War
Bosnian War at the end of the 20th century.[34] As Andras Riedlmayers's meticulous research for the Hague Tribunal demonstrates: What happened in Bosnia is not just genocide, the willful destruction of the essential foundations of one particular community or group of people within a society [....] What happened in Bosnia is also described as sociocide, the murdering of a progressive, complex, and enlightened society in order that a regressive, simple, and bigoted society could replace it.[35] Contrary to frequent Serb and Croat nationalist claims, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina constitutes a historical entity which has its own identity and its own history, according to Mitja Velikonja.[36] Robert Donia claims that as Serbia
Serbia and Croatia
Croatia only occupied parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina briefly in the Middle Ages, neither have any serious historical claims to Bosnia.[37] Moreover, Donia states that although Bosnia did interact with its Serb and Croat neighbors over the centuries, it had a very different history and culture from them.[38] 12th-century Byzantine historian John Kinnamos reported that Bosnia was not subordinated to the Grand Count of Serbia; rather the Bosnians had their own distinct way of life and government.[39] According to American historian John V.A. Fine, an expert on medieval Balkan history, the Bosnians
Bosnians (Bošnjani) have been a distinct people since at least the 10th century.[40] It is noted that writers on nationalism in Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia or the Bosnian War tend to ignore or overlook the Bosnian Muslim ideology and activity and see them as victims of other nationalisms and not nationalistic themselves.[41] Origin See also: Early history of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Genetic studies on Bosniaks The Early Slavs, a people from northeastern Europe, settled the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (and neighboring regions) in the sixth and early seventh century (amid the Migration Period), and were composed of small tribal units drawn from a single Slavic confederation known to the Byzantines as the Sclaveni
Sclaveni (whilst the related Antes, roughly speaking, colonized the eastern portions of the Balkans).[42][43] Upon their arrival, the Slavs
Slavs assimilated the Paleo-Balkan, mostly romanized tribes, generically known as the Illyrians
Illyrians on the territory of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also the romanized Celtic population which had intermingled with these since the 4th century BC, and to a lesser extent the Germanic-speaking Ostrogoths
Ostrogoths which had entered the area in the late 4th century AD. Timothy Gregory writes that "It is now generally agreed that the people who lived in the Balkans
Balkans after the Slavic "invasions" were probably for the most part the same as those who had lived there earlier, although the creation of new political groups and arrival of small numbers of immigrants caused people to look at themselves as distinct from their neighbours, including the Byzantines"[44] Being a remote and mountainous region, Bosnia appears to have been settled by a smaller number of Slavic colonizers than the region in general and perhaps served as an area of refuge for the indigenous peoples.[45] Tribes recorded under the ethnonyms of "Serb" and "Croat" are described as a second, latter, migration of different people during the second quarter of the 7th century who do not seem to have been particularly numerous;[42][46] these early "Serb" and "Croat" tribes, whose exact identity is subject to scholarly debate,[47] came to predominate over the Slavs
Slavs in the neighboring regions. Bosnia proper, however, appears to have been a territory outside Serb and Croat rule not being enumerated as one of the regions settled by those tribes.[48] In time, Bosnia would come to form an independent unit under a ruler, Ban Kulin, calling himself Bosnian.[49] In the 14th century a Bosnian kingdom
Bosnian kingdom centered on the river Bosna emerged. Its people, when not using local (county, regional) names, called themselves Bosnians.[40][50] Following its conquest by the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire in the mid-15th century, Bosnia experienced a rapid and extensive conversion of the local population to Islam, and by the early 1600s roughly two thirds of Bosnians
Bosnians were Muslim.[51][52] In addition, a smaller number of converts from outside Bosnia were in time assimilated into the common Bosniak unit, such as Croats
Croats (mainly in Turkish Croatia, and the Muslims of Slavonia
Slavonia that fled to Bosnia following the Austro-Turkish war), Serbian and Montenegrin Muhacirs (in Sandžak
Sandžak particularly Islamicized descendants of the Old Herzegovinian and highlander tribes from Brda region, such as Rovčani, Moračani, Drobnjaci
Drobnjaci and Kuči), and slavicized Vlachs,[53] Albanians[53] and German Saxons.[53] Genetic studies on Bosniaks
Bosniaks show close affinity to other neighboring South Slavs.[54] Y-DNA
Y-DNA results show notable frequencies of I2 (43.50%), R-M17
R-M17 (15.30%), E-V13
E-V13 (12.90%), J-M410
J-M410 (7.10%). Principal component analysis of Y-chromosomal haplogroup frequencies among the three ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks, showed that Serbs
Serbs and Bosniaks
Bosniaks are genetically closer to each other than either of them is to Croats.[55] History Main articles: History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina and History of Bosniaks Middle Ages Main article: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages The western Balkans
Balkans had been reconquered from "barbarians" by Byzantine Emperor Justinian
Justinian (r. 527–565). Sclaveni
Sclaveni (Slavs) raided the western Balkans, including Bosnia, in the 6th century.[56] The De Administrando Imperio (DAI; ca. 960) mentions Bosnia (Βοσωνα/Bosona) as a "small/little land" (or "small country",[57] χοριον Βοσωνα/horion Bosona) part of Serbia,[57] having been settled by Serbs
Serbs along with Zahumlje
Zahumlje and Travunija
Travunija (both with territory in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina);[49] it was referred to only once, at the end of the 32nd chapter on the Serbs
Serbs (a chapter overall drawn from older writings).[57] This is the first mention of a Bosnian entity; it was not a national entity, but a geographical one, mentioned strictly as an integral part of Serbia.[57] Some scholars assert that the inclusion of Bosnia in Serbia
Serbia merely reflect the status in DAI's time.[58] In the Early Middle Ages, Fine, Jr. believes that what is today western Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of Croatia, while the rest was divided between Croatia
Croatia and Serbia.[49] After the death of Serbian ruler Časlav
Časlav (r. ca. 927–960), Bosnia seems to have broken away from the Serbian state and became politically independent.[59] Bulgaria briefly subjugated Bosnia at the turn of the 10th century, after which it became part of the Byzantine Empire.[59] In the 11th century, Bosnia was part of the Serbian state of Duklja.[59][60] In 1137, the Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary annexed most of the Bosnia region, then briefly lost it in 1167 to Byzantum before regaining her in the 1180s. Prior to 1180 (the reign of Ban Kulin) parts of Bosnia were briefly found in Serb or Croat units.[61] Anto Babić notes that "Bosnia is mentioned on several occasions as a land of equal importance and on the same footing as all other [South Slavic] lands of this area."[62] After frequent change of rule over the area between regional powers, a de facto independent Bosnian state known as the Banate of Bosnia
Banate of Bosnia arose in the 12th century, though nominally under Hungarian sway. Banate of Bosnia
Banate of Bosnia and the Bosnian Church Main articles: Banate of Bosnia
Banate of Bosnia and Bosnian Church

Medieval monumental tombstones (Stećci) that lie scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina are historically associated with the Bosnian Church movement

Hval's Miscellany is a 15th-century Bosnian Church
Bosnian Church codex and one of the best known medieval manuscripts written in bosančica.

Christian missions emanating from Rome and Constantinople had since the ninth century pushed into the Balkans
Balkans and firmly established Catholicism in Croatia, while Orthodoxy came to prevail in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and eventually most of Serbia. Bosnia, lying in between, remained a no-man's land due to its mountainous terrain and poor communications. By the twelfth century most Bosnians
Bosnians were probably influenced by a nominal form of Catholicism characterized by a widespread illiteracy and, not least, lack of knowledge in Latin amongst Bosnian clergymen. Around this period, Bosnian independence from Hungarian overlordship was effected during the reign (1180–1204) of Kulin Ban
Kulin Ban whose rule marked the start of a religiopolitical controversy involving the native Bosnian Church. The Hungarians, frustrated by Bosnia's assertion of independence, successfully denigrated its patchy Christianity as heresy; in turn rendering a pretext to reassert their authority in Bosnia. Hungarian efforts to gain the loyalty and cooperation of the Bosnians
Bosnians by attempting to establish religious jurisdiction over Bosnia failed however, inciting the Hungarians to persuade the papacy to declare a crusade: finally invading Bosnia and warring there between 1235 and 1241. Experiencing various gradual success against stubborn Bosnian resistance, the Hungarians eventually withdrew weakened by a Mongol attack on Hungary. On the request of the Hungarians, Bosnia was subordinated to an Hungarian archbishop by the pope, though rejected by the Bosnians, the Hungarian-appointed bishop was driven out of Bosnia. The Bosnians, rejecting ties with international Catholicism came to consolidate their own independent church, known as the Bosnian Church, condemned as heretical by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Though scholars have traditionally claimed the church to be of a dualist, or neo- Manichaean
Manichaean or Bogomil
Bogomil nature (characterized by the rejection of an omnipotent God, the Trinity, church buildings, the cross, the cult of saints, and religious art), some, such as John Fine, have stressed domestic evidence indicating the retention of basic Catholic theology throughout the Middle Ages.[63] Most scholars agree that adherents of the church referred to themselves by a number of names; dobri Bošnjani or Bošnjani ("good Bosnians" or simply "Bosnians"), Krstjani (Christians), dobri mužje (good men), dobri ljudi (good people) and boni homines (following the example of a dualist group in Italy). Catholic sources refer to them as patarini (patarenes), while the Serbs
Serbs called them Babuni (after Babuna Mountain), the Serb term for Bogomils. The Ottomans referred to them as kristianlar while the Orthodox and Catholics were called gebir or kafir, meaning "unbeliever".[64] The majority of the knowledge about the church is retrieved from outside sources. Expansion and the Bosnian Kingdom Main article: Kingdom of Bosnia

The coat of arms of the Kotromanić dynasty on a 14th-century reverse – with the fleur-de-lis, which is today used as a Bosniak national symbol and was formerly featured on the flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Territorial evolution of the Bosnian Kingdom

Queen Catherine of Bosnia
Catherine of Bosnia fled the Ottoman invasion, while her children, prince Sigismund of Bosnia and princess Catherine, were converted to Islam. Her daughter Catherine was erected the Kral Kızı Monument after her death, while Sigismund, or later Ishak-beg Kraljević, was designated as Sanjak-bey of Bolu
Bolu by Mehmed the Conqueror.

The Bosnian state was significantly strengthened under the rule (ca. 1318–1353) of ban Stephen II of Bosnia
Stephen II of Bosnia who patched up Bosnia's relations with the Hungarian kingdom and expanded the Bosnian state, in turn incorporating Catholic and Orthodox domains to the west and south; the latter following the conquer of Zahumlje
Zahumlje (roughly modern-day Herzegovina) from the Serbian Nemanjić dynasty. In the 1340s, Franciscan
Franciscan missions were launched against alleged "heresy" in Bosnia; prior to this, there had been no Catholics – or at least no Catholic clergy or organization – in Bosnia proper for nearly a century. By the year 1347, Stephen II was the first Bosnian ruler to accept Catholicism, which from then on came to be – at least nominally – the religion of all of Bosnia's medieval rulers, except for possibly Stephen Ostoja of Bosnia (1398–1404, 1409–18) who continued to maintain close relations with the Bosnian Church. The Bosnian nobility would subsequently often undertake nominal oaths to quell "heretical movements" – in reality, however, the Bosnian state was characterized by a religious plurality and tolerance up until the Ottoman invasion of Bosnia in 1463.[65] By the 1370s, the Banate of Bosnia
Banate of Bosnia had evolved into the powerful Kingdom of Bosnia
Kingdom of Bosnia following the coronation of Tvrtko I of Bosnia
Tvrtko I of Bosnia as the first Bosnian king in 1377, further expanding into neighboring Serb and Croat dominions. However, even with the emergence of a kingdom, no concrete Bosnian identity emerged; religious plurality, independent-minded nobility, and a rugged, mountainous terrain precluded cultural and political unity. As Noel Malcolm stated: "All that one can sensibly say about the ethnic identity of the Bosnians
Bosnians is this: they were the Slavs
Slavs who lived in Bosnia."[66] Islamization and Ottoman era See also: History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1463–1878), Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Islamization of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bosnian uprising Upon his father's death in 1461, Stephen Tomašević succeeded to the throne of Bosnia, a kingdom whose existence was being increasingly threatened by the Ottomans. In same year, Stephen Tomašević made an alliance with the Hungarians and asked Pope Pius II
Pope Pius II for help in the face of an impending Ottoman invasion. In 1463, after a dispute over the tribute paid annually by the Bosnian Kingdom
Bosnian Kingdom to the Ottomans, he sent for help from the Venetians. However, no help ever arrived to Bosnia from Christendom;[67] King Matthias Corvinus
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, Skenderbeg
Skenderbeg of Albania and the Ragusans all failed to carry out their promises,[68] while the Venetians flatly refused the king's pleas.[69] In 1463, Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror
Mehmed the Conqueror led an army into the country. The royal city of Bobovac
Bobovac soon fell, leaving Stephen Tomašević to retreat to Jajce
Jajce and later to Ključ. Mehmed invaded Bosnia and conquered it very quickly, executing the last Bosnian king Stephen Tomašević and his uncle Radivoj. Bosnia officially fell in 1463 and became the westernmost province of the Ottoman Empire. The Croatian humanist and poet Marko Marulić, known as the Father of the Croatian Renaissance,[70] wrote Molitva suprotiva Turkom (Prayer against the Turks) – a poem in 172 doubly rhymed dodecasyllablic stanzas of anti-Turkish theme, written between 1493 and 1500, where he, among others, included Bosniaks
Bosniaks as the one of peoples who resisted the Ottomans.[71] The rise of Ottoman rule in the Balkans
Balkans modified the religious picture of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Ottomans brought with them a new religion, Islam. Throughout the entire Balkans
Balkans people were sporadically converting in small numbers; Bosnia, by contrast, experienced a rapid and extensive conversion of the local population to Islam, and by the early 1600s approximately two thirds of the population of Bosnia were Muslim.[51] Slovenian observer Benedikt Kuripečič compiled the first reports of the religious communities in the 1530s. According to the records for 1528 and 1529, there were a total of 42,319 Christian and 26,666 Muslim households in the sanjaks (Ottoman administrative units) of Bosnia, Zvornik and Herzegovina. In a 1624 report on Bosnia (excluding Herzegovina) by Peter Masarechi, an early-seventeenth-century apostolic visitor of the Roman Catholic Church to Bosnia, the population figures are given as 450,000 Muslims, 150,000 Catholics and 75,000 Orthodox Christians.[72] Generally, historians agree that the Islamization of the Bosnian population was not the result of violent methods of conversions but was, for the most part, peaceful and voluntary.[73] Scholars have long debated the reasons that made this collective acceptance of Islam
Islam possible among the Bosniaks, although the religious dynamic of medieval Bosnia is frequently cited.[74] Peter Masarechi, saw four basic reasons to explain the more intensive Islamization in Bosnia: the 'heretical past' of the Bosnians, which had left them confessionally weak and capable of transferring their allegiance to Islam; the example of many Bosnians
Bosnians who had attained high office through the devşirme, and as powerful men were in a position to encourage their relatives and associates to convert; a desire to escape from the burdens of taxation and other services levied on non-Muslim citizens; and finally, an equally strong desire to escape the proselytizing importunities of Franciscan
Franciscan monks among the Orthodox population.[75] Always on a purely religious ground, it is also said, by the orientalist Thomas Walker Arnold for instance, that because of the major heresy in the region at the time, oppressed by the Catholics and against whom Pope John XXII even launched a crusade in 1325, the people were more receptive to the Ottoman Turks. In fact, in the tradition of Bosnian Christians, there were several practices that resembled Islam; like for instance; praying five times a day (reciting the Lord's Prayer).[76] In time, hesitant steps were made towards acceptance of Islam. At first, this Islamisation was more or less nominal. In reality, it was an attempt at reconciling the two faiths. It was a lengthy and halting progress towards their final abandoning of their beliefs. For centuries, they were not considered full-fledged Muslims, and they even paid taxes like Christians.[77] This process of Islamisation was not yet finished in the 17th century, as is witnessed by a keen English observer, Paul Rycaut, who states in The Present State of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire in 1670: "But those of this Sect who strangely mix Christianity and Mahometanism together, are many of the Souldiers who live on the confines of Serbia
Serbia and Bosnia; reading the gospel in the Sclavonian tongue…; besides which, they are curious to learn the mysteries of the Alchoran [Quran], and the Law of Arabick tongue. [...] The Potures [Muslims] of Bosna are of this Sect, but pay taxes as Christians do; they abhor Images and the sign of the Cross; they circumcise, bringing the Authority of Christ's example for it."[78]

Stari Most
Stari Most was a 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar. The Old Bridge
Bridge stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on 9 November 1993 by Bosnian Croat forces during the Croat-Bosniak War. The bridge is considered as one of the most exemplary pieces of Islamic
Islamic architecture in the Balkans
Balkans and was designed by Mimar Hayruddin, a student and apprentice of the famous architect Mimar Sinan.[79][80][81]

Habsburg delegation, Joseph Freiherr von Lamberg and Nikola Jurišić, in front of Gazi Husrev-beg, a Bosniak[82] sanjak-bey in the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 16th century. He was an effective military strategist, and the greatest donor and builder of Sarajevo. By, Benedikt Kuripečič, 1530.

Many children of Christian parents were separated from their families and raised to be members of the Janissary
Janissary Corps (this practice was known as the devşirme system, 'devşirmek' meaning 'to gather' or 'to recruit'). Owing to their education (for they were taught arts, science, maths, poetry, literature and many of the languages spoken in the Ottoman Empire), Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian became one of the diplomatic languages at the porte. The Ottoman period that followed was characterized by a change in the landscape through a gradual modification of the settlements with the introduction of bazaars, military garrisons and mosques. Converting to Islam
Islam brought considerable advantages, including access to Ottoman trade networks, bureaucratic positions and the army. As a result, many Bosnians
Bosnians were appointed to serve as beylerbeys, sanjak-beys, mullahs, qadis, pashas, muftis, janissary commanders, writers, and so forth in Istanbul, Jerusalem
Jerusalem and Medina. Among these were important historical figures were: prince Sigismund of Bosnia (later Ishak Bey Kraloğlu), Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Isa-beg Ishaković, Gazi Husrev-beg, Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Ferhad Pasha
Pasha Sokolović, Lala Mustafa Pasha
Pasha and Sarı Süleyman Pasha. At least seven viziers were of Bosnian origin, of which the most renowned was Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
Pasha (who served as Grand Vizier under three sultans: Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III[33]). The Ottoman rule also saw many architectural investments in Bosnia and the creation and development of many new cities including Sarajevo
Sarajevo and Mostar. This is mostly because of the high esteem the Bosniaks
Bosniaks held in the eyes of the Sultans and the Turks. Bosnia became also a strategic base from which the Ottomans launched their armies northward and westward on campaigns of conquest and pillage. The Turks regarded Bosnia as a "bastion of Islam" and its inhabitants served as frontier guards (serhatlije).[83] The presence of Bosnians
Bosnians in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire had an important social and political effect on the country: it created a class of powerful state officials and their descendants which came into conflict with the feudal-military spahis and gradually encroached upon their land, hastening the movement away from the feudal tenure towards private estates and tax-farmers, creating a unique situation in Bosnia where the rulers were native inhabitants converted to Islam.[84] Although geographically located in Europe, Bosnia was perceived as culturally distant. Because of the strong Islamic
Islamic character of the country during the Ottoman period, Bosnia was perceived as more oriental than the Orient itself, an 'authentic East within Europe'.[85] The English archeologist Arthur Evans, who traveled through Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1870s, claimed that "Bosnia remains the chosen land of Mahometan [Muslim] Conservatism
Conservatism [...] fanaticism has struck its deepest roots among her renegade population, and reflects itself even in the dress."[86][87]

Unlike all other European regions that came under Ottoman control, Bosnia would retain its integrity as a distinct entity, first as the Sanjak of Bosnia, and then as the Eyalet of Bosnia, the borders of which were largely based on the preceding Bosnian Kingdom.[88]

Ottoman rule affected the ethnic and religious make-up of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina in additional ways. A large number of Bosnian Catholics retreated to the still unconquered Catholic regions of Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slovenia, at the time controlled by Habsburg Monarchy and the Republic of Venice, respectively. To fill up depopulated areas of northern and western Eyalet of Bosnia, the Ottomans encouraged the migration of large numbers of hardy settlers with military skills from Serbia
Serbia and Herzegovina. Many of these settlers were Vlachs, members of a nomadic pre-Slav Balkan
Balkan population that had acquired a Latinate language and specialized in stock breeding, horse raising, long-distance trade, and fighting. Most were members of the Serbian Orthodox church. Before the Ottoman conquest, that church had very few members in the Bosnian lands outside Herzegovina
Herzegovina and the eastern strip of the Drina
Drina valley; there is no definite evidence of any Orthodox church buildings in central, northern, or western Bosnia before 1463. With time most of the Vlach population adopted a Serb identity.[89][90][91] The 17th century brought major defeats and military setbacks on the Ottoman Empire's western frontier. With major wars occurring every few decades, Bosnia was economically and militarily exhausted. For Bosnia and Bosniaks, the most critical conflict of all was the Great Turkish War. At its very start in the mid-1680s, the Habsburgs retook nearly all of Ottoman Hungary, sending tens of thousands of Muslim refugees flooding into the Bosnian region. A similar process occurred with the Habsburg conquest of Lika
Lika and Slavonia. Thousands of Muslims from these parts fled eastward into the Bosnian pashaluk, while those who remained were forcibly converted to Catholicism. In total, it is estimated that more than 100,000 Muslims were expelled from the frontier regions and settled in Bosnia during this time. Many brought with them a new sense of hostility towards Christianity.[citation needed] Ottoman military disasters continued into the next decade. In 1697, Habsburg Prince Eugene of Savoy
Prince Eugene of Savoy conducted an extremely successful border raid which culminated in Sarajevo
Sarajevo being put to the torch. The Great Turkish War
Great Turkish War was finally ended by the Treaty of Karlowitz
Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699. However, in the late 1710s yet another war between the Ottomans and the Habsburg-Venetian alliance ensued. It was ended by the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, but not before sending another wave of Muslim refugees fleeing to Bosnia proper. These events created great unrest among Bosniaks. The sentiment of discontent was further magnified by war and an increased tax burden. As a result, Bosniak revolts sprang up in Herzegovina
Herzegovina in 1727, 1728, 1729, and 1732. A large plague that resulted in the death of thousands during the early 1730s contributed to the general chaos. In 1736, seeking to exploit these conditions, The Habsburgs broke the Treaty of Passarowitz
Treaty of Passarowitz and crossed the Sava river boundary. In one of the most significant events in Bosniak history, local Bosniak nobility organized a defense and counterattack completely independent of the ineffective imperial authorities. On 4 August 1737, at the Battle of Banja Luka, the outnumbered Bosniak forces routed the Habsburg army and sent them fleeing back to Slavonia.

Gradačac Castle, built in 1824 by Bosniak general Husein-kapetan Gradaščević, who rallied the Bosnians
Bosnians against the Turkish occupation and drove the Ottomans out to Kosovo, winning Bosnia its sovereignty for the coming year.

The Ottoman military reform efforts, that called for further expansion of the centrally controlled army (nizam), new taxes and more Ottoman bureaucracy would have important consequences in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These reforms weakened the special status and privileges for the Bosniak aristocracy and the formation of a modern army endangered the privileges of the Bosnian Muslim military men and of local lords, both were demanding greater independence from the Constantinople.[92] Barbara Jelavich states: "The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina [...] were becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Ottoman government. The centralizing reforms cut directly into their privileges and seemed to offer no compensating benefits. [...]"[93] The turning point came with the end of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1828–1829 and the Treaty of Adrianople in 1829. According to the provisions of the treaty, the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire granted suzerainty to Serbia
Serbia as a result of the Serbian revolution.[94][95] In a move that outraged Bosniaks
Bosniaks and launched numerous protests, newly autonomous Serbia
Serbia was also given six districts (Bosnian: nahijas) that had traditionally belonged to Bosnia. Following this move, seen as the confiscation of historically Bosnian lands, the Bosnian autonomy movement was born. In 1831 they joined together under the leader Husein-kapetan Gradaščević and formally demanded the autonomy of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina with an elected native ruler. Gradaščević made a call in May 1831, demanding that all Bosniak aristocrats immediately join his army, along with all from the general populace who wished to do so. Thousands rushed to join him, among them being numerous Bosnian Christians, who were said to comprise up to a third of his total forces. But the Ottoman government crushed the revolt, led by the local Herzegovinian Ali-paša Rizvanbegović
Ali-paša Rizvanbegović of Stolac, who was later given Pashaluk of Herzegovina
Herzegovina as a reward by the sultan Mahmud II. Husein Gradaščević
Husein Gradaščević died in Constantinople, under controversial circumstances in 1834, and became a living legend in his own time. Upon his death, he also became something of a martyr for Bosnian pride. This positive sentiment was not exclusive to the Muslim population, as Christians from Posavina
Posavina are thought to have shared a similar view for decades. Husein Gradaščević
Husein Gradaščević is still today considered a Bosniak national hero and one of the most revered figures in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The rise of the Bosnian national movement See also: Bosnian nationalism National consciousness developed in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina among the three ethnic groups in the 19th century, with national identities having had a major impact from the Millet system
Millet system in place in Ottoman society (where 'religion and nationality were closely intertwined and often synonyms'). During Ottoman rule, there was a clear distinction between Muslims and non-Muslims. There were different tax categories and clothes, but only in the late 18th- and early 19th century "the differentiations develop into ethnic and national forms of identification", according to Soeren Keil. The bordering countries of Serbia
Serbia and Croatia
Croatia consequently laid claim to Bosnia and Herzegovina; a combination of religion, ethnic identity and territorial claim was the basis for the three distinct nations.[96] However, members of the 19th century Illyrian movement, most notably franciscan Ivan Franjo Jukić, whose Bosnianhood
Bosnianhood is apparent from his very nom de plume "Slavophile Bosniak" (Slavoljub Bošnjak),[97] emphasized Bosniaks
Bosniaks (Bosnians) alongside Serbs
Serbs and Croats
Croats as one of the "tribes" that constitute the "Illyrian nation".[98]

Although a Catholic, Fra Ivan Franjo Jukić
Ivan Franjo Jukić considered himself Bosniak and advocated the preservation of a unified Bosniak nation across all three denominations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution
French Revolution and Illyrian Movement, the majority of Bosnian Franciscans supported the freedom, brotherhood, and unity of all South Slavs, while at the same time stressing a unique Bosniak identity as separate from the Serb and Croat identities. However, as pointed out by Denis Bašić, being a Bosniak in the 19th century was very much a social status granted only to the Muslim Bosnian aristocracy. Accordingly, Ivan Franjo Jukić writes in 1851 that "the begs and other Muslim lords call [Slavic-speaking Muslim peasants] Poturice [the Turkified ones] or Ćose [the beardless ones], while Christians call them Balije [a vulgar term that derives from the Ottoman period, and which applied to occasional Bosnian Muslim nomads who lived in mountainous areas. Today it is considered the most derogatory term for Bosniaks]."[99] Sometimes the term Turčin (Turk) was commonly used to describe the Bosnian and other Slavic Muslims, designating religious, and not ethnic belonging. The Italian diplomat M. A. Pigafetta, wrote in 1585 that Bosnian Christian converts to Islam
Islam refused to be identified as "Turks", but as "Muslims".[100] Klement Božić, an interpreter at the Prussian consulate in Bosnia during the 19th century stated that the "Bosnian Christians are calling their Muslim compatriots as 'Turks' and Muslim foreigners as 'Ottomans'; nor will ever a Muslim Bosniak say to an Ottoman, that he is a Turk or call him his brother. [...] A Bosniak Muslim can not tolerate the Ottomans and he [the Ottoman] despises the Bosniak".[101] Conrad Malte-Brun, a French-Danish geographer, states also in his Universal Geography, in 1829, that the term infidel is commonly used among the Muslims of Constantinople to depict the Muslims of Bosnia; further he states that Bosnians descended from the warriors of the northern race, and that their barbarism needs to be imputed to an intellectual separation from the rest of the Europe, because of their lack of the enlightenment of Christendom.[102] Croatian writer Matija Mažuranić wrote in 1842 that "in Bosnia Christians do not dare to call themselves Bosniaks. Mohammedans consider only themselves Bosniaks
Bosniaks and Christians are only the Bosniak serfs (raya) or, to use the other word, Vlachs."[103] The Muslim city people, craftsmen and artisans, i.e., those who were not serfs but rather free, that is, tax-exempt, also called themselves Bosniaks
Bosniaks and their language bošnjački (Tur. boşnakça).[104] The French diplomat and scholar Massieu de Clerval, who visited Bosnia in 1855, stated in his report that the "Bosnian Greeks [i.e. Orthodox Christians], Muslims and Catholics live together and frequently in very good harmony when foreign influences do not awake fanaticism and the question of religious pride".[105] Jukić's pupil and fellow friar Antun Knežević, was one of the main protagonists of the multireligious Bošnjak (Bosniak) identity as well, and even more vocal then friar Jukić. He fiercely advocated against imminent Croatization of Catholics on one side, as well as imminent Serbianization of Orthodox people on the other, as he called it in his work. His position and doctrine was that all Bosnians
Bosnians are one people of three faiths, and that up to the late 19th century, no Croats
Croats and Serbs
Serbs lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although Knežević was not a unique phenomenon in this sense, he certainly had strongest impact, next to Jukić.[106][107] Prior to that it was Franciscan Filip Lastrić
Filip Lastrić (1700–1783) who first wrote on the commonality of the citizens in the Bosnian eyalet, regardless of their religion. In his work Epitome vetustatum provinciae Bosniensis (1765), he claimed that all inhabitants of the Bosnian province (eyalet) constituted "one people" of the same descent.[108][109]

Bosniak resistance during the siege of Sarajevo
Sarajevo in 1878 against the Austro-Hungarian troops. Illustration from The Graphic
The Graphic (London newspapers), 1878.

Austro-Hungarian rule See also: History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918), Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bosnian crisis The conflict rapidly spread and came to involve several Balkan
Balkan states and Great Powers, which eventually forced the Ottomans to cede administration of the country to Austria- Hungary
Hungary through the Treaty of Berlin (1878).[110] After the uprising in Herzegovina
Herzegovina (1875–78) the population of Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims and Orthodox Christians in Bosnia decreased. The Orthodox Christian population (534,000 in 1870) decreased by 7 percent while Muslims decreased by a third.[111] The Austrian census in 1879 recorded altogether 449,000 Muslims and 496,485 Orthodox Christians in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The losses were 245,000 Muslims and 37,500 Orthodox Christians.[111]

The loss of almost all Ottoman territories during the late 19th and early 20th century, especially after the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkan
Balkan Wars, resulted in a large number of Muslim emigrants to Turkey, known as "Muhacirs".

A large number of Muslims left Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina following the Austrian occupation; official Austro-Hungarian records show that 56,000 people, mostly Muslims, emigrated between 1883 and 1920, but the number of Muslim emigrants is probably much greater, as the official record does not reflect emigration before 1883, nor include those who left without permits. Those who stayed were concentrated in towns and particularly proud of their urban culture, especially in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, which soon became one of the most multi-cultural cities in the former Yugoslavia. During the 20th century Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims founded several cultural and welfare associations in order to promote and preserve their cultural identity. The most prominent associations were Gajret, Merhamet, Narodna Uzdanica and later Preporod. The Bosnian Muslim intelligentsia also gathered around the magazine Bosnia in the 1860s to promote the idea of a unified Bosniak nation. This Bosniak group would remain active for several decades, with the continuity of ideas and the use of the Bosniak name. From 1891 until 1910, they published a Latin-script magazine titled Bošnjak (Bosniak), which promoted the concept of Bosniakism (Bošnjaštvo) and openness toward European culture. Since that time the Bosniaks
Bosniaks adopted European culture under the broader influence of Habsburg Monarchy. At the same time they kept the peculiar characteristics of their Bosnian Islamic
Islamic lifestyle.[112] These initial, but important initiatives were followed by a new magazine named Behar whose founders were Safvet-beg Bašagić (1870–1934), Edhem Mulabdić (1862–1954) and Osman Nuri Hadžić (1869–1937).[113] After the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, the Austrian administration of Benjamin Kallay, the Austro-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, officially endorsed "Bosniakhood" as the basis of a multi-confessional Bosnian nation that would include Christians as well as Muslims. The policy attempted to isolate Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina from its irredentist neighbors (Orthodox Serbia
Serbia and Catholic Croatia, but also the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire) and to negate the concepts of Serbian and Croatian nationhood which had already begun to take ground among the country's Orthodox and Catholic communities, respectively.[114][115][116] The notion of Bosnian nationhood was, however, firmly established only among the Bosnian Muslims, while fiercely opposed by Serb and Croat nationalists who were instead seeking to claim Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims as their own, a move that was rejected by most of them.[117]

Bosniaks
Bosniaks in the German newspaper Die Gartenlaube
Die Gartenlaube – Illustrirtes Familienblatt (1894).

After Kallay's death in 1903, the official policy slowly drifted towards accepting the three-ethnic reality of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ultimately, the failure of Austro-Hungarian ambitions to nurture a Bosniak identity amongst the Catholic and Orthodox led to almost exclusively Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims adhering to it, with 'Bosniakhood' consequently adopted as a Bosnian Muslim ethnic ideology by nationalist figures.[118] The journal "Bošnjak" ("Bosniak") founded in 1891 by Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak
Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak declared that Bosniaks (in the sense of all Bosnians) were neither Croats
Croats nor Serbs
Serbs but a distinct, though related people. It remarked that: "whereas the Croats argue that the Orthodox are our greatest enemies and that Serbdom
Serbdom is the same as Orthodoxy, the Serbs
Serbs wear themselves out calling our attention to some bogus history, by which they have Serbianized the whole world. We shall never deny that we belong to the South Slav family; but we shall remain Bosniaks, like our forefathers, and nothing else."[119]

Bosniaks
Bosniaks formed 31% of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry
Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry of the Austro-Hungarian Army.[120] BHI was commended for their bravery in service of the Austrian emperor in WWI, winning more medals than any other unit.[121]

The jaunty military march Die Bosniaken Kommen was composed by Eduard Wagnes in their honor.

In November 1881, upon introducing the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry, the Austro-Hungarian government passed a Military Law (Wehrgesetz) imposing an obligation upon all Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims to serve in the Imperial Army, which led to widespread riots in December 1881 and throughout 1882; the Austrians appealed to the Mufti
Mufti of Sarajevo, Mustafa Hilmi Hadžiomerović (born 1816) and he soon issued a Fatwa "calling on the Bosniaks
Bosniaks to obey military Law."[122] Other important Muslim community leaders such as Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak, later Mayor of Sarajevo, also appealed to young Muslim men to serve in the Habsburg military. In 1903, the Gajret cultural society was established; it promoted Serb identity among the Slavic Muslims
Slavic Muslims of Austria- Hungary
Hungary (today's Bosnia and Herzegovina)[123] and viewed that the Muslims were Serbs
Serbs lacking ethnic consciousness.[124] The view that Muslims were Serbs
Serbs is probably the oldest of three ethnic theories among the Bosnian Muslims themselves.[125] At the outbreak of World War I, Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims were conscripted to serve in the Austro-Hungarian army, some chose to desert rather than fight against fellow Slavs, whilst some Bosniaks
Bosniaks attacked Bosnian Serbs
Serbs in apparent anger after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Austro-Hungarian authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina imprisoned and extradited approximately 5,500 prominent Serbs, 700–2,200 of whom died in prison. 460 Serbs
Serbs were sentenced to death and a predominantly Bosniak[126][127][128] special militia known as the Schutzkorps
Schutzkorps was established and carried out the persecution of Serbs.[129] Neven Anđelić writes One can only guess what kind of feeling was dominant in Bosnia at the time. Both animosity and tolerance existed at the same time.[130] Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia and World War II See also: History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1918-1941), History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1941–1945), and History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina (1945–1992)

Mehmed Spaho
Mehmed Spaho was one of the most important members of the Bosnian Muslim community during the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats
Croats and Slovenes.

13 February 1943 report of Chetnik
Chetnik commander Pavle Đurišić detailing massacres of thousands of Muslims in the counties of Čajniče, Foča
Foča and Pljevlja.

The Eternal flame (Bosnian: Vječna vatra) in Sarajevo, is a memorial to the Serb, Muslim (i.e. Bosniak) and Croat military and civilian victims of the Second World War.

After World War I, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats
Croats and Slovenes
Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was formed. In it, Bosniaks alongside Macedonians and Montenegrins
Montenegrins were not acknowledged as a distinct ethnic group.[131] However; the first provisional cabinet included a Muslim.[132] Politically, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina was split into four banovinas with Muslims being the minority in each.[133] After the Cvetković-Maček Agreement 13 counties of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina were incorporated into the Banovina of Croatia
Croatia and 38 counties into the projected Serbian portion of Yugoslavia.[133] In calculating the division, the Muslims were discounted altogether[133] which prompted the Bosniaks
Bosniaks into creating the Movement for the Autonomy of Bosnia-Herzegovina.[134] Moreover, land reforms proclaimed in the February 1919 affected 66.9 per cent of the land in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Given that the old landowning was predominantly Bosniak, the land reforms were resisted. Violence against Muslims and the enforced seizure of their lands shortly ensued. Bosniaks
Bosniaks were offered compensation but it was never fully materialized. The regime sought to pay 255,000,000 dinars in compensation per a period of 40 years with an interest rate of 6%. Payments began in 1936 and were expected to be completed in 1975; however in 1941 World War Two erupted and only 10% of the projected remittances were made.[132] During World War II, Bosniak elite and notables issued resolutions or memorandums in various cities that publicly denounced Croat-Nazi collaborationist measures, laws and violence against Serbs: Prijedor (23 September), Sarajevo
Sarajevo (the Resolution of Sarajevo
Sarajevo Muslims of 12 October), Mostar
Mostar (21 October), Banja Luka
Banja Luka (12 November), Bijeljina
Bijeljina (2 December) and Tuzla
Tuzla (11 December). The resolutions condemned the Ustaše
Ustaše in Bosnia and Herzegovina, both for their mistreatment of Muslims and for their attempts at turning Muslims and Serbs
Serbs against one another.[135] One memorandum declared that since the beginning of the Ustaše
Ustaše regime, that Muslims dreaded the lawless activities that some Ustaše, some Croatian government authorities, and various illegal groups perpetrated against the Serbs.[136] At this time several massacres against Bosniaks
Bosniaks were carried out by Serb and Montenegrin Chetniks.[137][138][139] It is estimated that 75,000 Muslims died in the war,[140] although the number may have been as high as 86,000 or 6.8 percent of their pre-war population.[141] A number of Muslims joined the Yugoslav Partisan
Yugoslav Partisan forces, "making it a truly multi-ethnic force".[130] In the entirety of the war the Yugoslav Partisans of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina were 23 percent Muslim.[142] Even so, Serb-dominated Yugoslav Partisans would often enter Bosniak villages killing Bosniak intellectuals and other potential opponents.[143] In February 1943 the Germans approved the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)
13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) and began recruitment. Muslims composed approximately 12 percent of the civil service and armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia.[144] Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (1945-1992)

See also: Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina and History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–92)

During the socialist Yugoslav period, the Muslims continued to be treated as a religious group instead of an ethnic group.[145] In the 1948 census, Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslims had three options in the census: "Serb-Muslim", "Croat-Muslim", and "ethnically undeclared Muslim".[145] In the 1953 census the category "Yugoslav, ethnically undeclared" was introduced and the overwhelming majority of those who declared themselves as such were Muslims.[145] The Bosniaks
Bosniaks were recognized as an ethnic group in 1961 but not as a nationality and in 1964 the Fourth Congress of the Bosnian Party assured the Bosniaks
Bosniaks the right to self-determination.[145] On that occasion, one of the leading communist leaders, Rodoljub Čolaković, stated that "our Muslim brothers" were equal with Serbs
Serbs and Croats
Croats and that they would not be "forced to declare themselves as Serbs
Serbs and Croats." He guaranteed them "full freedom in their national determination"[146] In 1971, the Muslims were fully recognized as a nationality and in the census the option "Muslims by nationality" was added.[145] Bosnian War

See also: Bosnian War, Srebrenica massacre, Rape in the Bosnian War, Siege of Sarajevo, and Ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War

Gravestones at the Potočari genocide memorial near Srebrenica. Around 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed by the units of the Bosnian Serb Army during the Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre in July 1995.

During the war, the Bosniaks
Bosniaks were subject to ethnic cleansing and genocide. The war caused hundreds of thousands of Bosniaks
Bosniaks to flee the nation. The war also caused many drastic demographic changes in Bosnia. Bosniaks
Bosniaks were prevalent throughout almost all of Bosnia in 1991, a year before the war officially broke out. As a result of the war, Bosniaks
Bosniaks in Bosnia were concentrated mostly in areas that were held by the Bosnian government during the war for independence. Today Bosniaks
Bosniaks make up the absolute majority in Sarajevo
Sarajevo and its canton, most of northwestern Bosnia around Bihać, as well as central Bosnia, Brčko District, Goražde, Podrinje
Podrinje and parts of Herzegovina.

The Sarajevo
Sarajevo Red Line, a memorial event of the Siege of Sarajevo's 20th anniversary. 11,541 empty chairs symbolized 11,541 victims of the war which, according to Research and Documentation Center were killed during the Siege of Sarajevo.[147][148]

At the outset of the Bosnian war, forces of the Bosnian Serb Army attacked the Bosnian Muslim civilian population in eastern Bosnia. Once towns and villages were securely in their hands, the Serb nationalist forces – military, police, the paramilitaries and, sometimes, even Serb villagers – applied the same pattern: houses and apartments were systematically ransacked or burnt down, civilians were rounded up or captured, and sometimes beaten or killed in the process. Men and women were separated, with many of the men massacred or detained in the camps. The women were kept in various detention centers where they had to live in intolerably unhygienic conditions, where they were mistreated in many ways including being raped repeatedly. Serb nationalist soldiers or policemen would come to these detention centres, select one or more women, take them out and rape them.[149][150] The Serbs
Serbs had the upper hand due to heavier weaponry (despite less manpower) that was given to them by the Yugoslav People's Army and established control over most areas where Serbs
Serbs had relative majority but also in areas where they were a significant minority in both rural and urban regions excluding the larger towns of Sarajevo
Sarajevo and Mostar. The Serb nationalist military and political leadership received the most accusations of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (ICTY) many of which have been confirmed after the war in ICTY trials. Most of the capital Sarajevo
Sarajevo was predominantly held by the Bosniaks. In the 44 months of the siege, terror against Sarajevo
Sarajevo residents varied in intensity, but the purpose remained the same: inflict suffering on civilians to force the Bosnian authorities to accept Serb demands.[151] The VRS surrounded it (alternatively, the Serb forces situated themselves in the areas surrounding Sarajevo
Sarajevo the so-called Ring around Sarajevo), deploying troops and artillery in the surrounding hills in what would become the longest siege in the history of modern warfare lasting nearly 4 years. Throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, mosques were systematically destroyed by Serb and Croat armed forces. Among the most important losses were two mosques in Banja Luka, Arnaudija and Ferhadija mosque, that were on the United Nations
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) register of world cultural monuments. Language Main article: Bosnian language

The Charter of Kulin Ban
Kulin Ban from 1189, written in Bosnian Cyrillic
Bosnian Cyrillic is the oldest document of its kind among the South Slavic languages
South Slavic languages and is currently in a Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg museum.[152]

Bosnian grammar from 1890; written by the unsigned author Frano Vuletić.

Bosnian language
Bosnian language dictionary Magbuli 'arif or Potur Šahidija, written by Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi
Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi in 1631 using a Bosnian variant of the Perso-Arabic script.

Bosniaks
Bosniaks speak the Bosnian language, a South Slavic language of the Western South Slavic subgroup. Standard Bosnian is considered a variety of "Serbo-Croatian",[153][154] as mutually intelligible with the Croatian and Serbian languages (see Differences in standard Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian) which are all based on the Shtokavian dialect. As such, Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian is an arbitrary term applied to a language spoken by several ethnic groups, including the Bosniaks, and is for various reasons controversial for native speakers who do not use the term.[155] As result, paraphrases such as Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB) or Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) tend to be used in English on occasion. At the vernacular level, Bosniaks
Bosniaks are more linguistically homogeneous than Serbs
Serbs or Croats
Croats who also speak non-standard dialects beside Shtokavian. With respect to lexicon, Bosnian is characterized by its larger number of Ottoman Turkish (as well as Arabic and Persian) loanwords (called Orientalisms) in relation to the other Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian varieties. The first official dictionary in the Bosnian language
Bosnian language was published in 1992.[156] Church Slavonic is attested since at least the Kingdom of Bosnia; the Charter of Ban Kulin, written in Cyrillic, remains one of the oldest written South Slavic state documents. The modern Bosnian language
Bosnian language principally uses the Latin alphabet. However, Cyrillic (popularly termed Bosnian Cyrillic
Bosnian Cyrillic or Bosančica) was employed much earlier, as evident in medieval charters and on monumental tombstones (stećci) found scattered throughout the landscape. One of the most important documents is the Charter of Ban Kulin, which is regarded by Bosnian authors as one of the oldest official recorded documents to be written in Bosnian Cyrillic.[157][158] The use of Cyrillic was largely replaced by Arebica
Arebica (Matufovica), a Bosnian variant of the Perso-Arabic script, upon the introduction of Islam
Islam in the 15th century, first among the elite, then amongst the public, and was commonly used up until the 19th century.[159] Culture Folklore

Gazi Husrev-begova medresa or Kuršumli medresa, madrasa founded in 1537 in honor to Gazi Husrev Bey's mother Seldžuklija, in the old part of Sarajevo.

Buna river, near the town of Blagaj in southern Herzegovina. Blagaj is situated at the spring of the Buna river
Buna river and a historical tekke (tekija or Dervish
Dervish monastery). The Blagaj Tekija was built around 1520, with elements of Ottoman architecture
Ottoman architecture and Mediterranean style[160][161] and is considered a national monument.

Like many other elements of Bosniak culture, Bosniak folklore is derived from European, Slavic and Ottoman influences, typically taking place prior to the 19th century. Generally, folklore also varies from region to region and city to city. Cities like Sarajevo
Sarajevo and Mostar have a rich tradition all by themselves. Many man-made structures such as bridges and fountains, as well as natural sites, also play a significant role. At the very roots of the Bosniak folk soul are the national music genres called Sevdalinka and Ilahije.[citation needed] There are many signs of pagan practices being carried over first into Christianity and later into Islam
Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina – for example, the use of the mountain tops as a place of worship, and the name of pagan gods, such as Perun
Perun and Thor, that survived in oral tradition until the twentieth century.[162] Slavic traditions such as dragons, fairies and Vila, are also present. Fairies are often mentioned in Bosniak epics, poetry and folk songs. Well known are "gorske vile", or fairies from the mountains which dance on very green meadows. The cult of post-pagan Perun
Perun survived as the day of Elijah the Thunderer which was another important event for Bosnian Muslims. Muhamed Hadžijahić mentions: "In Muslim celebration of this holiday, we see traces of ancient pagan traditions related to cult of sun and rain." This tradition is among Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims known as Aliđun and among the Serbs
Serbs as Ilijevdan. Pre-Slavic influences are far less common but nonetheless present. Certain elements of paleo-Balkan beliefs have also been found.[163] One of these traditions which could originate from the pre-Slavic era, is a Bosniak tradition of placing a horse's scull tied with a rope into river Bosna, to fight off drought.[164] Djevojačka pećina, or the Maiden's Cave, is a traditional place of the 'Rain Prayer' near Kladanj
Kladanj in north-eastern Bosnia, where Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims gather to pray for the soul of the maiden whose grave is said to be at the entrance to the cave. This tradition is of pre- Islamic
Islamic origin and is a place where the followers of the medieval Bosnian Church
Bosnian Church held their pilgrimage. Another Bosnian Muslim place of pilgrimage is Ajvatovica near Prusac
Prusac in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is the largest Islamic
Islamic traditional, religious and cultural event in Europe, and is a place where devout Bosnian Muslims remember and give thanks to the founder of the holy site, Ajvaz-dedo, whose forty day prayers were heard by Allah
Allah and much needed water came out of a rock that had split open in a miraculous act. Even though the pilgrimage at Ajvatovica is a marking of the sixteenth-century conversion to Islam
Islam in Bosnia,[165] the tradition of this event is also linked to the pre- Islamic
Islamic cult of St George's Day, and not to any of Hijri calendars. The green banners of Islam, takbir's and nasheed's are an integral part of the Ajvatovica's spirit. The procession is approaching shahid's cemetery from the time of Mehmed the Conqueror
Mehmed the Conqueror and prays with Sūrat al-Fātiḥah to martyrs of Bosnia. Other important Islamic
Islamic holy sites are the khanqah's, dervish houses of prayer, where members of the Sufi mystical order gather around their leaders to engage in religious contemplation and rituals. One of the oldest is the 15th century Isa-beg's tekke (Isa-begova tekija) in Sarajevo.[citation needed] National heroes are typically historical figures, whose lives and skills in battle are emphasized. These include figures such as Ban Kulin, the founder of medieval Bosnia who has come to acquire a legendary status. The historian William Miller wrote in 1921 that "even today, the people regard him as a favorite of the fairies, and his reign as a golden age.";[166] King Tvrtko I of Bosnia, King during the peak of the Bosnian kingdom; Gazi Husrev-beg, the second Ottoman governor of Bosnia who conquered many territories in Dalmatia, Northern Bosnia, and Croatia; Đerzelez Alija, an almost mythical character who even the Ottoman Sultan was said to have called "A Hero", Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
Pasha (Mehmed-paša Sokolović), the Bosnian Ottoman Grand Vizier, whose heroism was depicted in the Bosnian poetry and folk songs and Husein Gradaščević, known as "The Dragon of Bosnia" who led the Bosnian uprising
Bosnian uprising against the Ottomans in the 19th century.[citation needed] Traditions and customs Further information: Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Music of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and List of Bosniaks
Bosniaks in music

Girls dancing a traditional Bosniak kolo.

A Bosniak playing gusle, painting by Ivana Kobilica, ca. 1900.

The nation takes pride in the native melancholic folk songs sevdalinka, the precious medieval filigree manufactured by old Sarajevo
Sarajevo craftsmen, and a wide array of traditional wisdom transmitted to newer generations by word of mouth, but in recent years written down in numerous books. Another prevalent tradition is "Muštuluk", whereby a gift is owed to any bringer of good news. Rural folk traditions in Bosnia include the shouted, polyphonic ganga and ravne pjesme (flat song) styles, as well as instruments like a wooden flute and šargija. The gusle, an instrument found throughout the Balkans, is also used to accompany ancient South Slavic epic poems. The most versatile and skillful gusle-performer of Bosniak ethnicity was the Montenegrin Bosniak Avdo Međedović (1875–1953). Bosniaks
Bosniaks have also at an international level left behind a musical legacy to the rest of Europe, and some examples of this is the 16th century lutenist-composer from Venice, Franciscus Bossinensis, and the Austrian-Jewish opera composer Alexander von Zemlinsky
Alexander von Zemlinsky who was partly of Bosnian Muslim origin.

Statues of writer Meša Selimović
Meša Selimović and painter Ismet Mujezinović in Tuzla.

Probably the most distinctive and identifiably Bosniak of music, Sevdalinka is a kind of emotional, melancholic folk song that often describes sad subjects such as love and loss, the death of a dear person or heartbreak. Sevdalinkas were traditionally performed with a saz, a Turkish string instrument, which was later replaced by the accordion. However the more modern arrangement, to the derision of some purists, is typically a vocalist accompanied by the accordion along with snare drums, upright bass, guitars, clarinets and violins. Sevdalinkas are unique to Bosnia and Herzegovina. They arose in Ottoman Bosnia as urban Bosnian music
Bosnian music with often oriental influences. In the early 19th century, Bosniak poet Umihana Čuvidina
Umihana Čuvidina contributed greatly to sevdalinka with her poems about her lost love, which she sang. The poets which in large has contributed to the rich heritage of Bosniak people, include among others Derviš-paša Bajezidagić, Abdullah Bosnevi, Hasan Kafi Pruščak, Abdurrahman Sirri, Abdulvehab Ilhamija, Mula Mustafa Bašeskija, Hasan Kaimija, Ivan Franjo Jukić, Safvet-beg Bašagić, Musa Ćazim Ćatić, Mak Dizdar, as many prominent prose writers, such as Enver Čolaković, Skender Kulenović, Meša Selimović
Meša Selimović (although he declared himself as a Serb[167]), Abdulah Sidran, Nedžad Ibrišimović, Zaim Topčić and Zlatko Topčić. Historical journals as Gajret, Behar and Bošnjak are some of the most prominent publications, which in a big way contributed to the preservation of the Bosniak identity in late 19th and early 20th century. The Bosnian literature, are generally known for their ballads; The Mourning Song of the Noble Wife of the Hasan Aga[168] (or better known as Hasanaginica), Smrt Omera i Merime (Omer and Merimas death) and Smrt braće Morića (The death of brothers Morić). Hasanaginica
Hasanaginica were told from generation to generation in oral form, until it was finally written and published in 1774 by an Italian anthropologist, Alberto Fortis, in his book Viaggio in Dalmazia ('A travel across Dalmatia').[169] Hasanaginica
Hasanaginica is considered as the one of the most beautiful ballads ever written, and were subsequently translated to German (Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1775), English (Walter Scott, 1798), Russian (Aleksandr Pushkin, 1835), French (Prosper Mérimée, 1827, and Adam Mickiewicz, 1841) and other world's languages, becoming an integral part of the world literary heritage already in the 18th century. Religion Further information: Islam
Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Madrasa, ca. 1906

The Hadži-Alija Mosque, Počitelj, constructed in 1562/63

The Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) are traditionally[170][171][172] and predominantly Sunni Muslim.[173] Historically Sufism
Sufism has also played a significant role among the Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims who tended to favor more mainstream Sunni orders such as the Naqshbandiyya, Rifa'i
Rifa'i and Qadiriyya. There are also Bosniaks
Bosniaks who can be categorized as Nondenominational Muslims
Nondenominational Muslims and Cultural Muslims.[174] The Bosnian Islamic
Islamic community has also been influenced by other currents within Islam
Islam than the one in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina prevailing Hanafi
Hanafi school, especially since the 1990s war.[175] The position of Sufism
Sufism in Bosnia during the Ottoman era was legally the same as in other parts of the empire. Bosnian Sufis produced literature, often in oriental languages (Arabic and Turkish), although a few also wrote in Serbo-Croatian,[176] such as Abdurrahman Sirri (1785-1846/47) and Abdulwahāb Žepčewī (1773–1821). Another Sufi from Bosnia was Sheikh Hali Hamza, whose doctrines were considered to contradict the official interpretation of Islam. His supporters hamzevije formed a religious movement that is often described as a sect closely related to the tariqa of bajrami-melami.[177] Another prominent Bosniak Sufi was Hasan Kafi Pruščak, a Sufi thinker and the most prominent figure of the scientific literature and intellectual life of the 16th century Bosniaks. In a 1998 public opinion poll, 78.3% of Bosniaks
Bosniaks in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina declared themselves to be religious.[178] Bosnian Muslims
Bosnian Muslims tend to often be described as moderate, secular and European-oriented compared to other Muslim groups.[179] Bosniaks
Bosniaks have been described as "Cultural Muslims"[180] or "Progressive Muslims".[181] Kjell Magnusson points out that religion played a major role in the processes that shaped the national movements and the formation of the new states in the Balkans
Balkans after the Ottoman retreat, since the Ottomans distinguished peoples after their religious affiliations.[182] Although religion only plays a minor role in the daily lives of the ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina today, the following stereotypes are still rather current, namely, that the Serbs are Orthodox, the Croats
Croats Catholic and the Bosniaks
Bosniaks Muslim; those native Bosnians
Bosnians who remained Christian and did not convert to Islam over time came to identify as ethnic Serb or Croat, helping to explain the apparent ethnic mix in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Still, however, there are a few individuals who violate the aforementioned pattern and practice other religions actively, often due to intermarriage.[183] Surnames and given names

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Bosniak surnames, as is typical among the South Slavs
South Slavs from former Yugoslavia, often end with "ić" or "ović". This is a patronymic which basically translates to "son of" in English and plays the same role as "son" in English surnames such as Johnson
Johnson or Wilson. What comes prior to this can often tell a lot about the history of a certain family. Most Bosniak surnames follow a familiar pattern dating from the period of time that surnames in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina were standardized. Some Bosniak Muslim surnames have the name of the founder of the family first, followed by an Islamic
Islamic profession or title, and ending with ić. Examples of this include Izetbegović (Son of Izet bey), and Hadžiosmanović ("son of Osman Hajji"). Other variations of this pattern can include surnames that only mention the name, such as Osmanović ("son of Osman"), and surnames that only mention profession, such as Imamović ("son of the Imam"). Some even mention religion as well such as "Muslimović" ("meaning son of a Muslim"). Quite a few Bosniak surnames do not necessarily have Islamic
Islamic roots to them, but end in -ović and -ić; common amongst Slavic surnames. These surnames have probably stayed the same since medieval times, and typically come from old Bosnian nobility, or come from the last wave of converts to Islam. Examples of such surnames include Tvrtković and Kulenović. There are also other surnames that do not end in ić at all. These surnames are typically derived from place of origin, occupations, or various others such factors in the family's history. Examples of such surnames include Zlatar ("goldsmith") Kovač ("blacksmith") or Kolar ("wheelwright"). There are some Bosniak surnames of foreign origin, indicating that the founder of the family came from a place outside Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many such Bosniak surnames have Albanian, Vlach, Turkic or Arab origins. Examples of such surnames include Arnautović (from Arnaut - Turkish ethnonym used to denote Albanians), Vlasić (from Vlach people), Tatarević (from Tatar people) and Arapović (from Arap - Turkish ethnonym used to denote Arabs). There are also some surnames which are presumed to be of pre-Slavic origin. Some examples of such surnames may be of Illyrian or Celtic origin, such as the surname Mataruga and Motoruga.[184] Many Bosniak surnames are also common as Croatian and Serbian surnames: Puškar, Jašić, Sučić, Subašić, Begić, Hadžić. Given names or first names among Bosniaks
Bosniaks have mostly Arabic, or Turkish, roots such as Osman, Mehmed, Muhamed, Alija, Ismet, Kemal, Hasan, Ibrahim, Mustafa, Ahmed, Husein, Hamza, Haris, Halid, Refik, Tarik, Faruk, Abdulah, Amer, Sulejman, Mahir, Enver, and many others. South Slavic given names such as "Zlatan" or "Zlatko" are also present primarily among non-religious Bosniaks. What is notable however is that due to the structure of the Bosnian language, many of the Muslim given names have been altered to create uniquely Bosniak given names. Some of the Oriental given names have been shortened. For example: Huso short for Husein, Ahmo short for Ahmed, Meho short for Mehmed. One example of this is that of the Bosniak humorous characters Mujo and Suljo, whose given names are actually Bosniak short forms of Mustafa and Sulejman. More present still is the transformation of given names that in Arabic or Turkish are confined to one gender to apply to the other sex. In Bosnian, simply taking away the letter "a" changes the traditionally feminine "Jasmina" into the popular male name "Jasmin". Similarly, adding an "a" to the typically male "Mahir" results in the feminine "Mahira".[185] Symbols

The coat of arms with the Fleur-de-lis, a common symbol of Bosniaks.

The Bosniak religious flag, used together with the national medieval coat of arms with the Fleur-de-lis
Fleur-de-lis during the 1990s.

The traditional symbol of the Bosniak people is a fleur-de-lis coat of arms, decorated with six golden lilies, also referred to Lilium bosniacum, a native lily of the region.[186] This Bosniak national symbol is derived from the coat of arms of the medieval Kingdom of Bosnia, and was particularly used in the context of the rule of Bosnian King Tvrtko I of Bosnia. According to some sources, the Bosnian coat of arms, with six golden lilies, originated from the French descended Capetian House of Anjou.[187] The member of this dynasty, Louis I of Hungary, was married to Elizabeth of Bosnia, daughter of the ban Stephen II of Bosnia, with Tvrtko I consequently embracing the heraldic lily as a symbol of the Bosnian royalty in token of the familial relations between the Angevins and the Bosnian royal family. It is also likely that the Bosnians
Bosnians adopted, or were granted, the fleur-de-lis on their coat of arms as a reward for taking the Angevin side. This emblem was revived in 1992 as a symbol of Bosnian nationhood and represented the flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1998. Although the state insignia was replaced in 1999 on request of the other two ethnic groups, the flag of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina still features a fleur-de-lis alongside the Croatian chequy. The Bosnian fleur-de-lis also appears on the flags and arms of many cantons, municipalities, cities and towns. It is still used as official insignia of the Bosniak regiment of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[188] The Fleur-de-lis
Fleur-de-lis can also be commonly found as ornament in mosques and on Muslim tombstones. Swedish historian Senimir Resić states that the emblem of the fleur-de-lis (symbolizing the Christian Middle Ages) which become a national symbol of Bosniaks
Bosniaks in 1992, was, in that time of war and Islamophobia, intended to draw attention to the Western world
Western world of the Christian and medieval European past of the Bosnian Muslims.[189] Another Bosniak flag dates from the Ottoman era, and is a white crescent moon and star on a green background. The flag was also the symbol of the short-lived independent Bosnia in the 19th century and of the Bosnian uprising
Bosnian uprising against the Turks led by Husein Gradaščević. Communities

Bosniaks
Bosniaks in Serbia
Serbia and Montenegro
Montenegro according to population censuses held in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

National emblem of the Bosniaks
Bosniaks of Serbia
Serbia and Bosniaks
Bosniaks of Montenegro.

National consciousness has also spread to most Bosniaks
Bosniaks in the neighboring countries and increasingly around the world after the Bosnian war. The largest number of Bosniaks
Bosniaks outside Bosnia and Herzegovina
Herzegovina are found in Serbia
Serbia and Montenegro
Montenegro (specifically in the Sandžak
Sandžak region). The city of Novi Pazar
Novi Pazar is home to the largest Bosniak population outside Bosnia. Another 40,000 Bosniaks
Bosniaks are found in Croatia
Croatia and 38,000 in Slovenia. However, some of them still identify themselves as "Muslims" or "Bosnians", according to latest estimates. In Macedonia there are estimated to be about 17,000 Bosniaks. Due to warfare and ethnic cleansing during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a large part of the world's estimated 3–4 million Bosniaks
Bosniaks are found in countries outside the Balkans. The highest Bosniak populations outside the ex-Yugoslavian states are found in the United States, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, and Turkey. Prior generations of Bosniak immigrants to some of these countries have by now been mostly integrated. In Western countries, a large majority of the Bosniaks
Bosniaks are war refugees who only arrived in these countries beginning in the 1990s. They still speak Bosnian, and maintain cultural and religious communities, visit their mother country regularly and send remittances to families back home. Diaspora See also: Bosnian diaspora There is a significant Bosniak diaspora
Bosniak diaspora in the rest of Europe, Turkey, United States
United States and Canada.

Turkey: The community in Turkey
Turkey has its origins predominantly in the exodus of Muslims from the Bosnia Eyalet
Bosnia Eyalet taking place in the 19th and early 20th century as result of the collapse of Ottoman rule in the Balkans. According to estimates commissioned in 2008 by the National Security Council of Turkey
Turkey as many as 2 million Turkish citizens are of Bosniak ancestry.[190] Bosniaks
Bosniaks mostly live in the Marmara Region, in the north-west. The biggest Bosniak community in Turkey
Turkey is in Istanbul; the borough Yenibosna
Yenibosna (formerly Saraybosna, after Sarajevo), saw rapid migration from the Ottoman Balkans
Balkans after the founding of the Republic of Turkey.[191] There are notable Bosniak communities in İzmir, Karamürsel, Yalova, Bursa
Bursa and Edirne. United States: The first Bosnian arrivals came around the 1860s. According to a 2000 estimate, there are some 350,000 Americans of Bosnian ancestry.[2] Bosniaks
Bosniaks were early leaders in the establishment of Chicago's Muslim community. In 1906, they established Džemijetul Hajrije (The Benevolent Society) of Illinois
Illinois to preserve the community's religious and national traditions as well as to provide mutual assistance for funerals and illness. The organization established chapters in Gary, Indiana, in 1913, and Butte, Montana, in 1916, and is the oldest existing Muslim organization in the United States. There are numerous Bosniak cultural, sport and religious associations. Bosnian-language newspapers and other periodicals are published in many states; the largest in the United States
United States is the St. Louis based newspaper "Sabah". Canada: According to the 2001 census, there are 25,665 people who claimed Bosnian ancestry.[192] A large majority of Bosnian Canadians emigrated to Canada
Canada during and after the Bosnian War, although Bosnian migration dates back to the 19th century.[192] Traditional centers of residence and culture for people from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina are in Toronto, Montreal
Montreal and Vancouver. Numerous Bosniak cultural, sport and religious associations, Bosnian-language newspapers and other periodicals are published in many states. The largest Bosnian organisation in Canada
Canada is the Congress of North American Bosniaks.[193]

See also

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina portal Islam
Islam portal

Bosniaks
Bosniaks of Croatia Bosniaks
Bosniaks of Montenegro Bosniaks
Bosniaks of Serbia Bosnian American Bosnian Australian Bosnian Austrian Bosniaks
Bosniaks in Kosovo Bosnian War

Croat–Bosniak War

Bushnak Constitutional nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina List of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina patriotic songs List of Bosniaks

Annotations

^ a b Kosovo
Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo
Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo
Kosovo has received formal recognition as an independent state from 113 out of 193 United Nations
United Nations member states.

Notes

^ Addition of higher and lower population estimates given below ^ This term is considered inaccurate since not all Bosniaks
Bosniaks profess Islam
Islam or practice the religion. Partly because of this, since the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Bosniak has replaced Muslim as an official ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with the religious term "Muslim" as an adherent of Islam. Additionally, Bosniaks
Bosniaks are native to Montenegro, Serbia
Serbia including Kosovo, and Croatia, whilst Islam
Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina may be practised by non-Bosniaks, such as the Turks of Bosnia and Herzegovina."Bosnia and Herzegovina: People", The World Factbook, American CIA, 2016 [2007], ISSN 1553-8133, retrieved 2016-04-13 

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Babuna, Aydin (1999). "Nationalism and the Bosnian muslims". East European Quarterly. 33 (2): 195–.  Bauer, Deron. The ethno-religious identity of Bosnian Muslims: A literature-based ethnography. Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies, 2012. Friedman, Francine (2000). "The muslim slavs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (with reference to the Sandzak of Novi Pazar): Islam
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