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In Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Ottoman rule, the population did not identify with national categories, except for a few intellectuals from urban areas who considered themselves to be Croats or Serbs. The population of Bosnia and Herzegovina primarily identified itself by religion, using the terms Turk (for Muslims), Hrišćani (Christians ...
The Ustaše also saw the Bosnian Muslims as "the flower of the Croatian nation". [16] A propaganda tribute (shout of the Croatian blood) to the Islamic cleric and the commander of the Muslim Militia from Sandžak, Sulejman Pačariz. Published by the "Osvit" magazine during the WWII.
At the same time armed incidents started to occur among Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the HVO and the HOS. [86] The HVO favored the partition of Bosnia along ethnic lines, while the HOS was a Croatian-Muslim militia who fought for the territorial integrity of Bosnia. [87]
Coronation of King Tomislav, painted by Oton Iveković. Croats settled in the areas of modern Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 7th century. [6] [7] [8] Constantine VII in De Administrando Imperio writes that Croats settled Dalmatia and from there they settled Illyricum and Pannonia [9] There, they assimilated with native Illyrians and Romans during the great migration of the Slavs.
Serb dominance of Bosnian communist leadership weakened, and the opportunity arose for a new national identity. In the 1961 Yugoslav census, the ethnic-Muslim option first appeared; by 1963, Muslims were listed with Serbs and Croats in the Bosnian constitution. In 1968, "Muslim" denoted ethnic (rather than religious) identity.
Almost all of Bosnian Muslims identify as Bosniaks; until 1993, Bosnians of Muslim culture or origin (regardless of religious practice) were defined by Yugoslav authorities as Muslimani (Muslims) in an ethno-national sense (hence the capital M), though some people of Bosniak or Muslim backgrounds identified their nationality (in an ethnic sense ...
From their point of view, Bosnian Muslims were Croats or Serbs who converted to Islam. In 1870, Bosnian Muslims made up 42.5 per cent of the population of the Bosnia Vilayet, while Orthodox were 41.7 and Catholics 14.5 per cent. Which national state would get the territory of the Bosnia vilayet thus depended on who the Bosnian Muslims would ...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A top European court ruled in an opinion published Tuesday that Bosnia's political system, set up under a U.S.-brokered peace deal in 1995, amplifies ethnic ...