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Islam in Montenegro
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Islam in Montenegro is the second largest religion after Serbian Orthodoxy. 110,000 Muslims make up 17.74% of Montenegro's population. They are divided into three main groups: ethnic Albanians, and Slavic Muslims split among Bosniaks, who speak Bosnian and Montenegrin Muslims, who prefer Serbian and Montenegro. Albanians are a separate group, speaking their own language, Albanian (5.26%) and living mostly in the south-east, especially in Ulcinj, where they form the majority of the population. Bosniaks are Slavic Muslims speaking the Bosnian language and living mostly in the north.
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Ottoman period.
The Bosniaks and many Albanians of Montenegro are Muslim by faith but also declared Montenegrins of Bosniak and/or Albanian blood (They see themselves as assimilated Montenegrins with Islam as their religion) The Muslims can be mostly found in the Sandžak region in Montenegro.
Ethnic composition according to the 2003 census:
- Montenegrins: 267,669 (43.16%) (Serbian Orthodoxy, Montenegrin Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Islam)
- Serbs: 198,414 (31.99%) (Serbian Orthodoxy)
- Bosniaks: 48,184 (7.77%) (Islam)
- Albanians: 31,163 (5.03%) (Islam and Catholicism)
- Muslims by nationality: 24,625 (3.97%) (Islam)
- Croats: 6,811 (1.1%) (Catholicism)
- 110,000 Muslims make up to 17.74% of Montenegro's population.
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