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Bosniaks

The Bosniaks (Bosnian: Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, pronounced [boʃɲǎːtsi]; singular masculine: Bošnjak, feminine: Bošnjakinja) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia,[14] which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, culture, history and language. They primarily live in Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo as well as in Austria, Germany, Turkey and Sweden. They also constitute a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania.

Not to be confused with Bosnians.

Bošnjaci

c. 115,000, by ancestry c. 2,000,000[2]

c. 300,000[3]

153,801[4]

53,605[5]

c. 50,000[6]

27,533[7]

24,131[8]

21,542[9]

21,000[10]

14,620[12]

Bosniaks are typically characterized by their historic ties to the Bosnian historical region, adherence to Islam since the 15th and 16th centuries, culture, and the Bosnian language. English speakers frequently refer to Bosniaks as Bosnian Muslims[note 2] or simply as Bosnians, though the latter term can also denote all inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina (regardless of ethnic identity) or apply to citizens of the country.

Turkey: The community in Turkey has its origins predominantly in the exodus of Muslims from the 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 as many as 2 million Turkish citizens are of Bosniak ancestry.[216] Bosniaks mostly live in the Marmara Region, in the north-west. The biggest Bosniak community in Turkey is in Istanbul; the borough Yenibosna (formerly Saraybosna, after Sarajevo), saw rapid migration from the Ottoman Balkans after the founding of the Republic of Turkey. There are notable Bosniak communities in İzmir, Karamürsel, Yalova, Bursa and Edirne.

Bosnia Eyalet

United States: The first Bosnian arrivals came around the 1860s. According to a 2000 estimate, there are some 350,000 .[3] Bosniaks were early leaders in the establishment of Chicago's Muslim community. In 1906, they established Džemijetul Hajrije (The Benevolent Society) of 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 is the St. Louis based newspaper "Sabah". At the peak of the Bosnian presence in St. Louis 70,000 Bosnians lived in the city.[217]

Americans of Bosnian ancestry

Canada: According to the , there are 25,665 people who claimed Bosnian ancestry.[218] A large majority of Bosnian Canadians emigrated to Canada during and after the Bosnian War, although Bosnian migration dates back to the 19th century.[218] Traditional centers of residence and culture for people from Bosnia and Herzegovina are in Toronto, 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 is the Congress of North American Bosniaks.[219]

2001 census

List of Bosniaks

Ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bushnak

Bosnian War

Croat–Bosniak War

Allworth, Edward (1994). . Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-1490-5.

Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia

Basic, Denis (2009). . University of Washington. ISBN 9781109124637. Archived from the original on 2014-06-28.

The Roots of the Religious, Ethnic, and National Identity of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Muslims

(2017). Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Surviving Empires. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350003590.

Bougarel, Xavier

Bougarel, Xavier (2009). "Od "Muslimana" do "Bošnjaka": pitanje nacionalnog imena bosanskih muslimana" [From "Muslims" to "Bosniaks": the question of the national name of the Bosnian Muslims]. Rasprave o nacionalnom identitetu Bošnjaka – Zbornik radova [The discussions on the national identity of Bosniaks - a collection of papers]. {{}}: |journal= ignored (help)

cite book

Bulić, Dejan (2013). . The World of the Slavs: Studies of the East, West and South Slavs: Civitas, Oppidas, Villas and Archeological Evidence (7th to 11th Centuries AD). Belgrade: The Institute for History. pp. 137–234. ISBN 9788677431044.

"The Fortifications of the Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period on the Later Territory of the South-Slavic Principalities, and their re-occupation"

Donia, Robert J.; Fine, John Van Antwerp Jr. (1994). . C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85065-212-0.

Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed

Fine, John Van Antwerp Jr. (1991). . University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3.

The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century

Friedman, Francine "The Bosnian Muslims: The Making of a Yugoslav Nation," in Melissa Bokovoy, Jill Irvine, and Carol Lilly, eds., State-Society Relations in Yugoslavia, 1945–1992, 1997

Hoare, Marko Attila (1 February 2014). . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-936531-9.

The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War

Kaimakamova, Miliana; Salamon, Maciej (2007). . Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Historia Iagellonica". ISBN 978-83-88737-83-1.

Byzantium, new peoples, new powers: the Byzantino-Slav contact zone, from the ninth to the fifteenth century

Karčić, Fikret (1995). The Bosniaks and the Challenges of Modernity: Late Ottoman and Hapsburg Times.

Malcolm, Noel (1996) [1994]. Bosnia: A Short History (2nd ed.). New York University Press.  978-0-8147-5561-7.

ISBN

Pinson, Mark (1994). . Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-932885-09-8.

The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia

Ramet, Sabrina P. (2006). . Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34656-8. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2004

(2005). Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Second World War. Frank Cass. ISBN 0-7146-5625-9.

Redžić, Enver

Tomasevich, Jozo (2001). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration. Stanford University Press.  978-0-8047-0857-9.

ISBN

(2003). Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-226-3.

Velikonja, Mitja

Books


Journals

Bosniaks in United States

(in Bosnian and German)

IGBD – Bosniaks in Germany

Congress of North American Bosniaks

BAACBH.org – Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia-Herzegovina

– Wiktionary entry for Bosniaks

Bosniaks

(in Bosnian)

BOSNJACI.net

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