Bosnian Australian
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Bosnian Australian are people who live in Australia of Bosnian Decent, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are 17,993 people in Australia of Bosnian descent[1]. A Large Majority of Bosnians in Australia are muslims.
In addition, there is a sizable population in Sydney where Bosnians are a cummunity holding a distinct collective cultural identity. By this usage, a Bosnian-Australian would be an individual who belonged to these cultures. Most of the Bosinans in Australia came to the country and flee the Bosnian war took place between March 1992 and November 1995. The war involved several ethnically defined factions within Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats as well as a smaller faction in Western Bosnia led by Fikret Abdić.
