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Serbia and Montenegro:    c. 245,000   Serbia:   136,087 [+19,503] (2002) [1]   Montenegro:   63,272 [+28,714] (2003) [2] Croatia:    20,755 (2001) [3] Slovenia:    21,542 (2002) [4] Republic of Macedonia:    17,018 (2002) [5] Germany:    180,000 USA:    130,000 Austria:    90,000 Sweden:    54,000 Switzer ...

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• Bosniaks - History
• Bosniaks - Pre-Slavic roots
• Bosniaks - Medieval Bosnia
• Bosniaks - Ottoman rule
• Bosniaks - Austro-Hungarian rule and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
• Bosniaks - The struggle for recognition
• Bosniaks - Culture
• Bosniaks - Folklore
• Bosniaks - Language
• Bosniaks - Religion
• Bosniaks - Surnames and names
• Bosniaks - Symbols
• Bosniaks - Traditions and customs
• Bosniaks - Important dates in Bosniak history
• Bosniaks - People
• Bosniaks - Bosniaks today

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Bosniaks - Pre-Slavic roots. The earliest well known inhabitants of the area now known as Bosnia and Herzegovina were the Illyrians. This ancient Indo-European people presumably arrived in the west Balkans around 2000 BC, overrunning the various old European cultures who lived there before them (such as the Butmir Culture in the vicinity of modern Sarajevo). Despite the arrival of the Celts in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, the Illyrians remained the dominant group in the west Balk ...

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Bosniaks, Bosniaks - History, Bosniaks - Pre-Slavic roots, Bosniaks - Medieval Bosnia, Bosniaks - Ottoman rule, Bosniaks - Austro-Hungarian rule and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Bosniaks - The struggle for recognition, Bosniaks - Culture, Bosniaks - Folklore, Bosniaks - Language, Bosniaks - Religion, Bosniaks - Surnames and names, Bosniaks - Symbols, Bosniaks - Traditions and customs, Bosniaks - Important dates in Bosniak history, Bosniaks - People, Bosniaks - Bosniaks today

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

• Caron - Usage
• Caron - Writing and printing carons
• Caron - List of letters
• Caron - Other uses
• Caron - Software
• Caron - Unicode
• Caron - TeX
• Caron - Macintosh
• Caron - Microsoft Word
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About one hundred years ago, the term "Bosniak" had a similar meaning to the one "Bosnian" has today. Many of the people who lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina once called themselves "Bosniaks" including Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Jews and Muslims. This meaning has since been relatively replaced. During the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1878 to 1918, the administration of Benjamin Kallay, the Austria-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, enforced the idea of a unitary Bosnian nation (Bosanci) tha ...

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Bosnians, Bosnians - History, Bosnians - Bosnians in respect to religion, Bosnians - Bosnians today

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Bosnia and Herzegovina:   1,479,930 Croatia:   202,365 (2004) (581,663 in 1991) Slovenia:    38,964[1] (2002) Republic of Macedonia:    35,939[2] (2002) Albania:    37,000[3] (1990 w/ Montenegrins)    40,000[4] (2005 est.) Romania:    22,518[5] (2002) Hungary:    3,816[6] Germany    Lower est. 125,0 ...

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• Serbs - Population
• Serbs - Culture
• Serbs - Contribution to humanity
• Serbs - Language
• Serbs - Surnames
• Serbs - Religion
• Serbs - Symbols
• Serbs - Customs
• Serbs - Name
• Serbs - History
• Serbs - Subgroups
• Serbs - Cognate peoples

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Adnan Terzic Bosnia and Herzegovina (locally: Bosna i Hercegovina/Босна и Херцеговина, most commonly abbreviated as BiH) is a country in south-east Europe with an estimated population of between three and four million people. The country is the homeland of its three ethnic constituent peoples: Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats. Other communities that live there are not given the status of being "constituent"[1]. A citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...

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• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Etymology
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - History
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Pre-Slavic period
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Medieval Bosnia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Ottoman era
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Austrio-Hungarian rule
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - The first Yugoslavia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - World War II
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Socialist Yugoslavia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Bosnian war
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Politics
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Subdivisions
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Geography
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Economy
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Demographics
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Education
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Culture
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Gallery
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - Related topics

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The Bosnian language (bosanski jezik) is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, based on the Štokavian dialect. The language is used primarily by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region of Sandžak (in Serbia and Montenegro) and elsewhere. It is based on the Western variant of the Shtokavian dialect and uses both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. The name Bosnian language is the commonly accepted name among Bosniak linguists, and the name used by the ISO-639 standard. Including:

• Bosnian language - History
• Bosnian language - Controversy
• Bosnian language - Phonology
• Bosnian language - Vowels
• Bosnian language - Consonants
• Bosnian language - Differences to similar languages

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The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of south-eastern Europe. The region has a combined area of 728,000 km² and a population of around 53 million. The region takes its name from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. Balkans - Definitions and boundaries. Balkans - Balkan Peninsula. The Balkans are sometimes referred to as the "Balkan Peninsula" as they are surrounded by ...

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• Balkans - Southeastern Europe
• Balkans - Ambiguities and controversies
• Balkans - Current common definition
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• Balkans - Nature and natural resources
• Balkans - History and geopolitical significance
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Visoko is a city in central Bosnia and Herzegovina with approx. 50,000 residents in the municipality. The city is especially famous for its leather industry. It is located on the road between Zenica and Sarajevo. Visoko lies on the Bosna river, where the Fojnička river merges into it. It is administratively part of the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation. In the census of 1991, the municipality of Visoko had 46,130 residents, of which there were 74.54% Bosniaks, 15.99% Serbs, 4.28% Croats, 3.16% Yugoslavs and 2.04% others. The town itself had 15,310 inhabitants. The ...

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• Visoko - History

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White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. Though literally implying light-skinned, "white" has been used in different ways at different times and places. It is somewhat of a misnomer. While the extremes of human skin color range from pink to blue-black, the vast majority of people have a skin color which can be best described as some shade of brown. A common element to the various definitions of "White" today, is that the term refers to a person ...

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• White people - The Epistemological Challenge
• White people - Synonyms
• White people - Historic use of the term in the United States
• White people - Early immigrants: Germans Irish
• White people - Late nineteenth-century immigrants: Italians Slavs European Jews Asians
• White people - Early twentieth-century immigrants: Arabs Berbers
• White people - Late twentieth-century immigrants: Hispanics West Indians
• White people - African Americans
• White people - Use of the term outside the United States
• White people - The Americas: Euro-predominant and mixed-race people
• White people - North Africa Southwest Asia and South Asia
• White people - Whiteness and White nationalism
• White people - Social vs. physical perceptions of white
• White people - Criticisms of the term
• White people - White as opposed to Light Skinned
• White people - Areas of habitation
• White people - Footnotes

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The Republic of Croatia is a crescent-shaped country in Europe bordering the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans. Its capital is Zagreb. In recent history, it was a republic in the SFR Yugoslavia, but it achieved independence in 1991. It is a candidate for membership of the European Union. Croatia - Name. Croatia is the Latinized version of the native name of the country: Hrvatska. The letter "r" in the first syllable "hrv" is rolled or continuant, which is a linguistic trait ...

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• Croatia - Name
• Croatia - History
• Croatia - Counties
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• Croatia - Politics
• Croatia - Political system
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Zagreb (pronounced: [ˈzɑː.greb]) is the capital city of Croatia. The city's population was 779,145 in 2001. It is situated between the southern slopes of Medvednica mountain and the northern bank of the Sava river, it is 120 m above sea level, located at 45°48′N 15°58′E. Its favourable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin, which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonic regions, provides an excellent connection for traffic ...

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Bosnian War (also: War in Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a common name for an international conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina from April 6, 1992 to September 14, 1995. In a war that lasted little more than three years, according to original estimates there were about 200,000 killed and about 2 million displaced people. According to more recent reports there were 105,000 killed and 1.8 million displaced people by this war. The war was caused by a complex combination of political, social and security crisis that foll ...

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• Bosnian War - Political situation before the war
• Bosnian War - Dissolution of Yugoslavia
• Bosnian War - Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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This article is about genocide that took place during the Bosnian War from 1992-1995. Other cases of genocide in the same region during World War II are covered in other articles. The Bosnian Genocide or Bosnia Genocide was an organized killing of Bosnians, predominantly male Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) during the war between 1992 and 1995 by authorities of Republika Srpska and its Army. The Bosnian Genocide is a term used by some academic and human rights institutions when referring to the case of genocide that to ...

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• Bosnian Genocide - Recent Developments
• Bosnian Genocide - Background
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Bosnians are a multi-religious as much as multi-ethnic society but this is not to say that its component religions and ethnicities are homogeneous and independent from each other. According to Tone Bringa, an author and anthropologist, in respect to Bosnia and Bosnians she states that "Neither Bosniak, nor Croat, nor Serb identities can be fully understood with reference only to Islam or Christianity respectively but have to be considered in a specific Bosnian context that has resulted in a shared history and locality among Bosnian ...

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Bosnians, Bosnians - History, Bosnians - Bosnians in respect to religion, Bosnians - Bosnians today

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(Turkish: Yurtta Barış, Dünyada Barış) The Republic of Turkey or Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), is a bicontinental country located mainly in Asia Minor, with 3% of its land located in the Balkans. Its strategic location straddles the Bosphorus straits that separate Southwest Asia from Southeast Europe. The Anatolian peninsula comprises nearly all of its territory, and is situated between the Black Sea on the north and the Mediterranean Sea to south, with the Aegean Sea and Marmara Sea (both branches of the Medit ...

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Recently, the denial of Bosnian nationhood, as a unifying trait of those who stem from Bosnia and Herzegovina, has generally been used by some political factions to drive the constituent ethnicities of Bosnia and Herzegovina further apart. Because of this pressure and because of its complex history Bosnian national identity today remains a complex issue among its adherents. Variably members of the Bosnian nation, of various ethnic and religious backgrounds who live or stem from Bosnia and Herzegovina, define themselves Bosnians primar ...

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Bosnians, Bosnians - History, Bosnians - Bosnians in respect to religion, Bosnians - Bosnians today

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Novi Pazar was founded in 1459-1461 by Isa-beg Isaković, who was also the founder of the city of Sarajevo. The first written document which mention Novi Pazar dates back to the 15th century, and describes the decision of Dubrovnik Council to appoint a consul in this town. That reinforces the idea that the town was already developed back then, thanks to its outstanding geographic position, as it was at the intersection of important roads leading to Dubrovnik, Niš, Sofija, Istanbul, Solun (Thessaloniki), Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Budapest. While many authors wrote about Novi Pazar, Evliya Celebi noted that it was one of the biggest tow ...

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Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar - Name, Novi Pazar - Geography, Novi Pazar - History, Novi Pazar - Population, Novi Pazar - Surroundings

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The earliest known settlement at this location was founded by the Romans on the Illyric ruins during the 1st century AD. The city was known as Municipium S. (S is the first letter of the name of the city that has been founded on the ruins near Pljevlja's Komini suburb). Slavs eventually entered this region in the 6th century and built a city called Breznik (Breznica), named after the river which runs through the city. The first mention of the name Pljevlja was in the 15th century. After the Ottoman invasion, the city was renamed to Ta ...

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Pljevlja, Pljevlja - History, Pljevlja - Demographics, Pljevlja - Features

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Slavs are customarily divided into three major subgroups: East Slavs, West Slavs, and South Slavs, each with a somewhat different background. The East Slavs may all be traced to Slavic-speaking populations that were organized as Kievan Rus' beginning in the 9th century A.D. and eventually fell under the influence of the Mongol Empire. Almost all of the South Slavs can be traced to ethnic Slavs who mixed with the local population of the Balkans (Vlachs, Illyrians, Thracians, Dacians and Getae) and with later invaders from the Ea ...

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Slavic peoples, Slavic peoples - Ethno-cultural subdivisions, Slavic peoples - The emergence of Proto-Slavic, Slavic peoples - The Slavic homeland debates, Slavic peoples - General argument, Slavic peoples - Diverse theories, Slavic peoples - Slavs as Aryans theory, Slavic peoples - Ethnonyms applied to Slavs, Slavic peoples - Etymology of Slav, Slavic peoples - Slavs in the historical period, Slavic peoples - Religion and alphabet

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