Religion Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina



all of bosnian church adherents converted islam. there conflicting claims on exact ratios or whether or how of voluntary or not. since earliest turkish defters distinguish bosnian christians catholics or orthodox, general consensus number of christians adherents in times during ottoman rule did not exceed few hundred people, due islamic converts.


ottoman rule changed ethnic , religious makeup of bosnia , herzegovina. many catholic bosnians retreated croatia, controlled habsburg austria after ottoman conquest of of kingdom of hungary, , dalmatia, controlled republic of venice after fall of hungary. conversely, during couple of centuries croatia under austro-hungarian rule , bosnia under ottoman rule, muslims north , west migrated bosnia, forming heavily-muslim pocket in northwest corner around bihać. other unconverted bosniak catholics started identify bosnian croats, although process not complete until 20th century (the 19th century catholic writer ivan franjo jukić, example, considered himself bosniak , not croat). orthodox serbs , vlachs herzegovina , neighboring sanjak of smederevo (belgrade pashaluk) migrated parts of bosnia. many vlachs later assimilated local serb, bosniak, , croat populations. ottoman period saw development of sephardic jewish community in bosnia, chiefly in sarajevo. sephardic jews persecuted in , expelled catholic spain @ end of 15th century, , many resettled in ottoman empire because of tolerance towards other religions (especially towards people of book), in , around istanbul. first synagogue built in sarajevo in 1581.







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