Submitted by Top_Moment4144 t3_zyhkq3 in history
PrimevalDuck t1_j29p3dw wrote
Reply to comment by varain1 in Did Italy made a mistake by joining the Entente in 1915 during World War One? by Top_Moment4144
> annexed Bosnia, where the majority was not Austrian or Hungarian, but Serbian and Ottoman
Wrong, the majority was Bosniak
varain1 t1_j29zyo6 wrote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
I'm not from that area, so I got my numbers from the "1895 census" section, which mentions:
"The Catholic Encyclopedia treated the majority Slavic population (98%) as Serbs".
The census is also listing the numbers by religion, with around 43% Christian Orthodox, 37% Muslim and 20% Catholics ...
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