Muslims (
Croatian,
Serbian and
Macedonian:
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.
