Muslims Nationality
"Muslim" means the countries of the former Yugoslavia , a citizen of South Slavic Muslim tradition.
Before 1974 , Yugoslavia, if it existed officially nationalities Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian and Slovenian nationality Bosnian had no official recognition, because Bosnia was populated by Serbs, Croats and Slavs or Croats considered Islamized Serbs. We do not recognize their status distinct people, but followers of a religion.
So the name is spelled with a capital letter, as opposed to a "Muslim" which means a follower of Islam , but the word is also written without capital letters in French, like all adjectives of nationality.
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History
Origins
Before the conquest of Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Ottoman Empire , Slavs in Bosnia are Catholic or Orthodox. Part of the Orthodox are former Bogomil Serbian driven from Serbia by Stefan Nemanja , it also had to convert the Slavs of the region to the "heresy" Bogomil Collective Memory It is interesting to note that many Muslims today still know how to time their ancestors were converted to Islam by the Turks and their religion before converting. This applies, for example by director Emir Kusturica , who knew his father, that before the conversion of his ancestor, his family was Serbian Orthodox and that their conversion had occurred 250 years earlier . In 1974 , Tito introduced a national "Muslims" (with a capital M) at the request of the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina , the Muslims become one of the constituent peoples of Yugoslavia. After the Dayton Accords in 1995 , when the Bosnia-Herzegovina independent, the Bosnian Muslims demand recognition of their people as a nation by the UN , not under its first name of "Muslims" but under that of " Bosnians " (in Bosnian , Bonjaci in English Bosniaks). The term Bosniak is another adjective that is used to designate the Slavs to Islam in Bosnia. It appeared in 1930 , when the government seeks to remove the monarchist Islamized Slavs of the designation "Muslim" since even before its official recognition by Tito in 1974, the Slavs to Islam were called by the Bosnian Croats and Serbs " Muslims "not pejoratively but simply for the sake of the distinguished Croat Catholic and Serb Orthodox , while three spoke the same language the BCMS . The term Bosniak has been revived in the early days of the 1980s by Muslim intellectuals, such as Zulfikar Adil Pasic or Ferid Muhic . They claim it as a term of appointment for all Muslims speaking BCMS in Yugoslavia, but also as a description of the people of the Muslim state, so they want to create . That is why today, the federation of Bosnia, it typically uses two terms: Bosnians for all inhabitants of Bosnia, they are Croat, Serb, or Muslim, and Bosnian Muslims for the people, instead of the old terminology used by Tito. Muslim nationality is legally still in Serbia , in Slovenia , in Republika Srpska , in Montenegro , in Macedonia and Croatia to describe the Slavs of Muslim tradition. It is accepted as an answer to the question of nationality in censuses. In Bosnia-Herzegovina , outside the Serbian Republic of Bosnia is officially uses the term Bosniaks. To keep the integrity and unity of the country, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina does not communicate formally by using the term Bosniaks. Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and especially also use the term Muslim informally, especially in the former Republic of Herceg-Bosna. The establishment of the Muslim nationality the choice of the term Bosniak
Contemporary usage of the word Muslim
Population
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,902,956 people in the census of 1991, before the recognition of nationality Bosnian. 
Montenegro 24 625 people declared themselves Muslims in the 2003 census. 
Croatia 19 677 people (2001 census) 
Serbia (without Kosovo) 19 503 people (2002 census) 
Slovenia 10 467 people (2002 census) 
Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) 2553 people (2002 census) Notes
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