... divisions and strife in motion. Christian Serbs and Croats were defeated by Muslim Ottoman Turks and claimed the entire region as a sovereign conquest. In the late 15th century, the majority Orthodox populated Bosnia and Herzegovina also fell to the Ottoman Turks. Gradually ethnic Albanians and to a lesser extent Serbs became converted to Islam. However, the majority of Albanians and Serbs were ... still Orthodox Christians, and due to Turkish military victories, began centralizing in and around the city of Belgrade. This "Great Migration- of Serbs in the late 17th century left Kosovo un...

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... the country of Yugoslavia. Bosnia-Herzegovina had a population of 4.4 million, before the war. It also consisted of several mixes of religious groups. About 45% were Bosnian Muslims, 30% Bosnian Serbs (Eastern Orthodox), and 15% Bosnian Croats (Roman Catholics). Bosnian Muslims are known as the Slavs, who had converted to Islam after the Ottoman Empire conquered the region, in the 14th and 15th ... ...

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