i have ZERO clue about this!What was the religious make-up of the Bosnia and Herzgovina population prior to the Great War?
Prior to WWI, there was no majority ethnic group in Bosnia, but Serbs were the largest group, followed by Muslims, and then Croats (Catholics). From wikipedia:
1910 census: 1,898,044 persons
Serb Orthodox Christians 825,918 (43.49%)
Sunni Muslims 612,137 (32.25%)
Catholics 434,061 (22.87%)
others 26,428 (1.39%)
After WWI, Serbs were still the largest population.
1931 census: 2,323,555 persons
Serbian Orthodox Christians 1,028,139 44.25%
Sunni Muslims 718,079 30.9%
Catholics 547,949 23.58%
others 29,388 1.27%
Even after WWII, Serbs were still the largest group:
1953 census: 2,847,790 persons
Serbs 1,264,372 (44.4%)
undecided 891,800 (31.3%) [note: undecided are mostly Muslims]
Croats 654,229 (23%)
Montenegrins 7,336 (0.3%)
Slovenes 6,300 (0.2%)
ethnic Macedonians 1,884 (0.1%)
others 21,869 (0.7%)
The population inversion occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. At this time, Muslims became the largest group by a slight margin.
1971 census: 3,746,111 persons
Muslims[2] 1,482,430 (39.6%)
Serbs 1,393,148 (37.2%)
Croats 772,491 (20.6%)
Yugoslavs 43,796 (1.2%)
Montenegrins 13,021 (0.3%)
Slovenes 4,053 (0.1%)
ethnic Macedonians 1,773
others 35,399 (1%)
The 2000 *estimate* (not an actual census) holds the following: (Bosniaks are Muslims)
Bosniaks 48% (of whom around 90% are followers of Islam)
Serbs 37.1% (of whom around 99% are followers of the Serb Orthodox Church)
Croats 14.3% (of whom around 88% are followers of the Catholic Church)
others 0.6%
So, as you can see, no one ethnic group in Bosnia has a majority (50% or greater), and Serbs have been historically the largest of the groups, whereas in the 1970s and especially presently, the Muslims/Bosniaks are the largest of the three groups, but not by a very large margin.What was the religious make-up of the Bosnia and Herzgovina population prior to the Great War?
Most Bosnians are Muslims. There are some Orthodox Christians in Bosnia called Bosnian Serbs. %26amp; there are a smaller manority of Catholics.
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