How Bosnia become 50% Muslim

[SilverKnight]

How did Bosnia become 50% Muslim? | Video Graphics

[TheForeigner]

It's an Ottoman legacy, but the region has seen much demographic change, with either Serbs or Muslim Bosniaks in majority or plurality.

[Dušan]

Bosnia became 50% Muslim in last census 2013, after so many GeNoCiDeS against poor Muslims.
It was never 50% before 2013.

Actually, it had Orthodox Serbs as most numerous nation until census 1971.

[SilverKnight]

Bosnia became 50% Muslim in last census 2013, after so many GeNoCiDeS against poor Muslims.
It was never 50% before 2013.

Actually, it had Orthodox Serbs as most numerous nation until census 1971.

How do you serbians see Bosnia muslims or muslims in general?

[Dušan]

How do you serbians see Bosnia muslims or muslims in general?

We dont care about Muslims in general, as long as they mind they own bussiness and stay away of our yard.

Bosnian Muslims were mostly Islamized Serbs, and partly Croats, during Ottoman rule in Bosnia.
We want high autonomy and freedom of Serb Republic in Bosnia, and to have less ties with Bosnian Muslims and Croats. The less connections between us, the better for all.

[Jana]

It's an Ottoman legacy, but the region has seen much demographic change, with either Serbs or Muslim Bosniaks in majority or plurality.

Pre-Ottoman Bosnia had extreme Serb minority. Bosnian Serbs are complete Ottoman legacy, that is what they share with muslims.

In this political climate, the Eastern Orthodoxy never seems to have penetrated the medieval Bosnia proper beyond Podrinje

The Ottoman conquest of the Kingdom of Bosnia in 1463 led to drastic changes in the confessional structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Islam taking root and Orthodox Christianity spreading into Bosnia. Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror vowed to protect Orthodox Christianity and, like all Orthodox churches, the Serbian Orthodox Church enjoyed great support from the Ottoman state. The Ottomans introduced a sizeable Orthodox Christian population into Bosnia proper, including Vlachs from the eastern Balkans. The conversion of the adherents of the Bosnian Church also aided the spread of Eastern Orthodoxy. Later, areas abandoned by Catholics during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars were settled with Muslims and Orthodox Christians.[2] The Ottoman regime consistently favored the Orthodox Church over the Catholic and encouraged conversions of Catholics to Orthodoxy due to political expediency: while the entire Orthodox hierarchy was subjected to the sultan, the Catholics were suspected of conspiring with their brethren outside the Ottoman Empire.[3]

While Bosnian Catholics were only allowed to repair existing sacral objects, a large scale construction of Orthodox monasteries and churches throughout Bosnia started in the northwest in 1515.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter...nd_Herzegovina

[TheForeigner]

What is the origin of Bosniaks? Are they Islamised Serbs and Croats or what?

[Jana]

What is the origin of Bosniaks? Are they Islamised Serbs and Croats or what?

Both. And also islamized Albanians, in minor numbers Hungarians and Saxons and even some Circassians too. They don't have one origin.

[reboun]

Both. And also islamized Albanians, in minor numbers Hungarians and Saxons and even some Circassians too. They don't have one origin.

I didn’t know that, thank you for the information.

[Varda]

Pre-Ottoman Bosnia had extreme Serb minority. Bosnian Serbs are complete Ottoman legacy, that is what they share with muslims.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter...nd_Herzegovina

Mainstream claim about 100% East Herzegovinian and Montenegrin origin of Bosnian Serbs is debunked by genetic. Autosomally Bosnian Serbs are not genetic twins of Herzegovinian Serbs and they even more distant from Montenegrins. Bosnian Serbs are more "Slavic"/northern shifted than both Heruegovinian Serbs and Montenegrins.