in Ottoman military campaigns. In the late 17th century, a large influx of Muslim converts from neighbouring lands north and west of Bosnia and Herzegovina made up around half of the total Bosnian Muslim population as the Ottoman frontlines shifted across present-day Croatia and Hungary. Significant migrations of Slavic Muslims also occurred during the 19th century from present-day Serbia and Montenegro following the Serbian Revolution.

During Ottoman rule, the social and cultural life of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina was structured