Back مسلمون (جنسية) Arabic Мюсюлмани (народ) Bulgarian Muslimani (narod) BS Musulmans (nacionalitat) Catalan Muslimani Czech Μουσουλμάνοι (εθνότητα) Greek Jugoslavaj islamanoj Esperanto Musulmanes (nacionalidad) Spanish Muslimid (etniline rühm) Estonian Musulman (nazionalitatea) Basque
Muslimani Муслимани | |
|---|---|
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Flag_of_the_Islamska_Zajednica.svg) Flag used to represent various Muslim minorities in the former Yugoslavia | |
| Total population | |
| c. 51,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Serbia | 13,011 (2022)[1] |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina | 12,101 (2013)[2] |
 Slovenia | 10,467 (2002)[3] |
 Montenegro | 10,162 (2023)[4] |
 Croatia | 3,902 (2021)[5] |
 North Macedonia | 1,187 (2021)[6] |
| Languages | |
| Bosnian and Serbian | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other mainly Muslim South Slavs | |
Muslims (Serbo-Croatian Latin and Slovene: Muslimani, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic and Macedonian: Муслимани) are an ethnoreligious group of Serbo-Croatian-speaking Muslims, inhabiting mostly the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The term Muslims became widely used for the Serbo-Croatian-speaking Muslims in the early 1900s. It gained official recognition in the 1910 census. The 1971 amendment to the Constitution of Yugoslavia also recognised them as a distinct nationality. It grouped several distinct South Slavic communities of Islamic ethnocultural tradition. Before 1993, a vast majority of present-day Bosniaks self-identified as ethnic Muslims, along with some smaller groups of different ethnicities, such as Gorani and Torbeši. This designation did not include non-Slavic Yugoslav Muslims, such as Albanians, Turks and some Romani people.[7]
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the majority of the Serbo-Croatian-speaking Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia adopted the Bosniak ethnic designation. They are today constitutionally recognised as one of three constituent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Approximately 100,000 people across the rest of the former Yugoslavia consider themselves to be Slavic Muslims, mostly in Serbia. They are constitutionally recognized as a distinct ethnic minority in Montenegro.[8]
- ^ Ethnicity: Data by municipalities and cities 2023, p. 21.
- ^ "Popis 2013 BiH". popis.gov.ba. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ verska, jezikovna in narodna sestava (2002) od statistični urad republike Slovenije
- ^ "Stanovništvo Crne Gore prema nacionalnoj odnosno etničkoj pripadnosti, vjeri, maternjem jeziku i jeziku kojim se uobičajeno govori" (PDF). Monstat.org. 15 October 2024. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ^ "Population by Ethnicity/Citizenship/Mother tongue/Religion" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "1. Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of North Macedonia, 2021 - first dataset" (PDF). State Statistical Office of North Macedonia. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Dimitrova 2001, pp. 94–108.
- ^ Đečević, Vuković-Ćalasan & Knežević 2017, pp. 137–157.