Serbians, Croatians and Bosnians insisted they were ethnically distinct although many communities had a long history of intermarriage.

It was also around this time that the Bosnians were Christianized.

Critics saw the characters Marko and Blacky as " Kusturica's idealization of Serbs trapped into desperate acts by history and others ' evil while the cowardly characters in the film were Croats and Bosnians, who chose betrayal and collaboration.

The Albanian defeat ended a planned alliance between the Albanians and the Bosnians, who were similarly seeking autonomy.

The work claimed lands that were inhabited by Bulgarians, Macedonians, Albanians, Montenegrins, Bosnians, Hungarians and Croats as part of Greater Serbia.

It has often been suggested that the Muslims of Bosnia are the descendants of Serbs who converted from Orthodox Christianity to Islam under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, but this is not true since Bosnians at that time were either Chatolics or followers of Bosnian Church, an indigenous branch of the Bogomils that existed in Bosnia during the Middle Ages.

They were followed by more European migrants including many from the former Yugoslavia, such as Bosnians and Macedonians.

Malaysian forces were greeted warmly by Bosnians as well as Serbs and Croats.

Various paramilitary units were operated during the Bosnian War: the Serb " White Eagles " ( Beli Orlovi ), Arkan's " Tigers ", " Serbian Volunteer Guard " ( Srpska Dobrovoljačka Garda ), Bosnians " Patriotic League " ( Patriotska Liga ) and " Green Berets " ( Zelene Beretke ), and Croatian " Croatian Defence Forces " ( Hrvatske Obrambene Snage ), etc.

The ABS 2001 Census reported that 43 % were of Southern or Eastern European origin, with 10 % of Maltese extraction alone and about 20 % from the Balkan region, including Albanians, Bosnians, Croatians, Macedonians and Serbs.

His 10. 000 special Akınji soldiers ( In Turkish language they are called " deli " meaning " crazy " literally, they were unregular cavalryman of Turks, Bosnians and Crimean Tatars ) served as reserve soldiers in that battle.

Turkish army were composed of Ottoman Turks, Crimean Turks and Bosnians while Crusaders were an ally of all European nations at that war.

Marin was his interpreter, since the Bosnians were not familiar with Latin.

During WWII the Ustasha Jasenovac concentration camp was established just across the river Sava from Bosanska Krajina, and many of the region's inhabitants ( mainly Serbs, Gypsies and Jews but also some communist Bosnians and Croats ) were killed there.

" Hill said the negotiations with the Bosnians, Serbs and Croats were successful because all the parties " were all ready to settle.

" Mullen worried that the band were exploiting the Bosnians ' suffering for entertainment.

After negotiations, Bosnians were allowed to leave the city and Serbia was officially conquered by Turks on June 20, 1459.

It was against US intervention in the Balkans, leaning more toward the Orthodox Christian Serbs than the Muslim Bosnians and Albanians.

This was in conjunction with administrator Benjamin von Kállay's promotion of Bošnjaštvo, a policy that aimed to inspire in Bosnia's people ' a feeling that they belong to a great and powerful nation ' and viewed Bosnians as " speaking the Bosnian language and divided into three religions with equal rights.

The Treaty of San Stefano triggered profound anxiety among the Albanians and Bosnians meanwhile, and it spurred their leaders to organize a defense of the lands they inhabited.

Unconvinced by Kulin ’ s Bosnians, however, Innocent sent his legate John de Casamaris and Archdeacon Marin of Dubrovnik to Bosnia to interrogate Ban Kulin, his wife, and subjects about “ everything relating to faith and life ”, and if they found anything that “ smelled of this heretical depravity -- or if they resisted true teaching — they should correct the situation .” He referred them to a “ Constitution ” he had prepared regarding heresy.

Kulin ’ s son Stefan, during a later meeting, agreed that if the Bosnians violated the agreement, they would pay a heavy fine of 1, 000 marks.

Also there are many other ethnic origins like Circassians, Arabians or Bosnians, and they all can speak Turkish as native language.

On the other hand, they wanted to emphasize the stereotypes encountered in many jokes about Bosnians and Slovenians – the former portrayed as raw, unsophisticated, vivid, and open-hearted, and the latter likely to be stiff, cold, serious and calculated.

The 1993 language law declared that there was a single official language for Bosnians: " In the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ijekavian standard literary language of the three constitutive nations is officially used, designated by one of the three terms: Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian.

To link the disjointed parts of territories populated by Serbs and areas claimed by Serbs, Karadzic pursued an agenda of systematic ethnic cleansing primarily against Bosnians through genocide and forced removal of Bosniak populations.

King Sigismund's men had to fall back to Nin, which was subsequently attacked by Bosnians.

* In 2002 Slovenia census, 21, 542 persons identified as Bosniaks ; 8, 062 as Bosnians, while 10, 467 chose Muslims by nationality.

* In the event of the Srebrenica massacre, which triggered a number of investigations to determine the reasons for the failure of the UN to deter Serbian forces to storm the town, accusations have been made, notably by General Morillon, that the Serbs actually fell in a propaganda trap used by the Bosnians to reinforce their image of victims and blur their use of Safe Areas as bases.

Basically the title was originally used by Croats and later by Bosnians and Hungarians.

The šargija is used by the Bosnians in Bosnian root music.

The deposition of the reformer Sultan Selim III in 1807, and his replacement with the reactionary Mustafa IV by the Janissaries and other opponents of reform, provoked Alemdar Mustafa Pasha to lead his army of Albanians and Bosnians to Constantinople in an attempt to reinstate Selim III and restore his reforms.

The city also had a temporary population of ethnic Albanians and Bosnians flown in during the Kosovo conflict as part of Turkey and Macedonia's efforts to aid the suffering populaces of former Yugoslavia by offering them temporary asylum.

One major new development during this time was the 1993 establishment of a reception centre for Bosnians who faced persecution and ethnic cleansing in Serbian concentration camps.

* 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.

Later in the 20th century, after the break-up of the Soviet Union, leaders appealed to ancient ethnic feuds or tensions that ignited conflict between the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as well Bosnians, Montenegrins and Macedonians, eventually breaking up the long collaboration of peoples and ethnic cleansing was carried out in the Balkans, resulting in the destruction of the formerly communist republic and produced the civil wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 – 95, resulted in mass population displacements and segregation that radically altered what was once a highly diverse and intermixed ethnic makeup of the region.

* August 27 – Battle of Bileća: Bosnians check Ottoman advance.

They recovered slightly, completing a double over the Bosnians and getting a point in Oslo, but conceded a cutting injury time equalizer in Denmark to draw 2 – 2.

However, both teams could not score again as it finished a heartbreaking 1 – 1 home draw for the Bosnians, who although played the game to win the group, had to settle for a fourth place finish instead.

Albanians, Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Bosnians, Arameans, Circassians, Georgians, Greeks, Jews, Hemshin, Laz, Gagauz, Yezidi, Abkhazians and a number of other ethnic groups also live in Anatolia in smaller numbers.

During the War time, Pakistan had hosted thousands of Bosnians as refugees in Pakistan.

Sigismund personally led an army of almost 50, 000 " crusaders " against the Croats and Bosnians, which culminated in 1408 with the Battle of Dobor, and a massacre of about 200 noble families, many of them victors of numerous battles against the Ottomans.

Furthermore, numerous Bosnians played influential roles in the Ottoman Empire's cultural and political history during this time.

Bosnian soldiers formed a large component of the Ottoman ranks in the battles of Mohács and Krbava field, two decisive military victories, while numerous other Bosnians rose through the ranks of the Ottoman military bureaucracy to occupy the highest positions of power in the Empire, including admirals, generals, and grand viziers.

Many Bosnians also made a lasting impression on Ottoman culture, emerging as mystics, scholars, and celebrated poets in the Turkish, Arabic, and Persian languages.

As with many other peoples, there are popular stereotypes on the local level: in popular jokes and stories, inhabitants of Vojvodina ( Lale ) are perceived as phlegmatic, undisturbed and slow ; Montenegrins are lazy and pushy ; southern Serbians are misers ; Bosnians are raw and stupid ; people from Central Serbia are often portrayed as capricious and malicious, etc.

It is thought the majority of Valparaíso's people have non-Spanish European background, such as: British and Irish, Australians and New Zealanders, North Americans ( U. S. or Canadian ), Croats and Bosnians, Dutch and Belgians, French, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Portuguese and Scandinavians.

During the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian was introduced as the sole official language ; it was the language of all Bosnians: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats.

The name " Bosnian language " is controversial for those Serbs and Croats who think the name of the language implies it is the language of all Bosnians, which includes Bosnian Croats and Serbs.

As Prime Minister, he was an advocate of third-world development and a prominent international activist for causes such as the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and the interests of Bosnians in the 1990s Balkans conflict.

Most defendants have been Serb politicians, soldiers and paramilitaries but Croats, Bosnians and ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas have also been tried.

Claims that medieval Bosnians declared themselves Croats or Serbs have been disputed: evidence shows many instances of them calling themselves Bosnians ( Bošnjani ); however, some historians believe that these indicate regional rather than ethnic identity.