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If in 1921 25% were Serb speaking Muslims then the claim of a Serb majority becomes even more tenuous since that would leave approximately 5% as Serbs. Unless we're arguing that anyone who spoke any of the non-Slovenian, non Macedonian, Slav dialects was a Serb. Of course that would mean that the overwhelming majority in Croatia and virtually everyone in Bosnia was Serb.
by MarekNYC on Sun Feb 4th, 2007 at 02:50:19 PM EST
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? I can't follow your reasoning at all.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Feb 4th, 2007 at 02:52:27 PM EST
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Well you certainly have seen some data here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Kosovo
While with Bosnian Muslims it's not easy to distinguish who is who ( for outsiders) because they speak Serbian /Croatian only and their names are very often same as Serbian/Croatian with Albanians it's different story. They of course speak Albanian (and all though they used to learn Serbian at school one can always recognize them through their dialect except if they lived elsewhere in Serbia).And their names are not Slavic, so it's easy. Then again in Sandzak you have again Muslims of Serbian origin and language. If one cares to do it it's not hard to differentiation course Albanians are majority now on Kosovo but how is the story going with some USA parts where English is not even language in use anymore? End even closer to home Europe is soooo troubled that ethnic principle is not even considered to be used...
by vbo on Mon Feb 5th, 2007 at 02:45:25 AM EST
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D'oh, Wikipedia! Thanks for the link, from it appears that Serbs (who, just like the Albanians, were both Muslims and Christians) were an overall majority but city-concentrated up until the 1876 uprising and the ensuing refugee stream into the Vojvodina, and Albanians ever since.

Sidenote, I also found the origin of the claim that Albanians were a minority pre-WWII: apparently during the last census (1939), many Albanians were forced to declare themselves as Turks.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Feb 5th, 2007 at 06:51:54 AM EST
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