Muslims (nationality)
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 100,000 | |
 Serbia
|
22,301 (2011) |
 Montenegro
|
20,537 (2011) |
 Slovenia
|
10,467 (2002) |
 Croatia
|
7,558 (2011) |
 Macedonia
|
2,553 (2002) |
| Languages | |
| South Slavic languages | |
| Religion | |
| Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bosniaks, Gorani, Macedonian Muslims, Pomaks | |
Muslims (Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene: Muslimani, Муслимани) was a term used in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as an official supra-ethnic designation of nationality of Slavic Muslims and thus encompassed a number of populations ethnically distinct, including the Bosniaks, and to a minor extent Gorani, Pomaks and Macedonian Muslims. Notably, "Muslims" were one of the constitutive nations of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In connection to their national awakening on the eve of the Breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s they are today constitutionally recognized as Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, like before the establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after World War I. Approximately 100,000 people across the former Yugoslavia still consider themselves to be Muslims in a national sense, while other self-identify as Bosniaks, and to a lesser extent Gorani, Macedonian Muslims or Pomaks. The two latter names are also used by Slavic Muslims living outside of the former Yugoslavia, mainly in Bulgaria where they form a part of the wider Slavic demographic majority, and also where they live as minorities in non-Slavic countries such as Greece and Turkey.
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