Bosniaks
South Slavic people
Bosniaks are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Bosnia and Herzegovina, distinguished primarily by their Islamic religious heritage.
They are the largest ethnic group in Bosnia and Herzegovina, alongside Serbs (Orthodox Christian) and Croats (Catholic).
The term replaced "Bosnian Muslim" as the official ethnonym after the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s: The Bosniaks faced ethnic cleansing during the siege of Sarajevo.
Islam's largest branch adherent
- mosqueIslamic house of worship
- QuranIslam's central scripture
- imamMuslim religious guide
- RamadanNinth Islamic month
Eid · hajj · halal · salah · zakat · fasting · dervish · tariqa
Bosnia's chief city
- YugoslaviaFormer South Slav federation
- TitoYugoslav communist president
- Ottoman EmpireTurkish sultanate, 1299-1922
Grilled minced meat rolls
Shared cultural heritage group
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- communityCollective of connected people
nationality · population · kinship · lineage · homeland · multiculturalism · coexistence · roots
South Slavic language family
- Latin scriptWestern alphabetic writing system
- CyrillicSlavic alphabet system
- Indo-EuropeanVast language family
- vocabularyOne's word collection
Sunni
Islam's largest branch adherent
Ramadan · Eid · hajj · halal · salah · zakat · fasting · dervish · tariqa
Sarajevo
Bosnia's chief city
- YugoslaviaFormer South Slav federation
- TitoYugoslav communist president
- Ottoman EmpireTurkish sultanate, 1299-1922
ćevapi
Grilled minced meat rolls
ethnicity
Shared cultural heritage group
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
community · nationality · population · kinship · lineage · homeland · multiculturalism · coexistence · roots · demographic
Serbo-Croatian
South Slavic language family
- Latin scriptWestern alphabetic writing system
- CyrillicSlavic alphabet system
- Indo-EuropeanVast language family
BosniaksSerbs
Balkan ethnic group
Croats · non-Muslims · Christians · Montenegrins · Slovenes
- Bosnian War1990s Balkan ethnic conflict
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaSoutheastern European country