Shuttle Back and Forth Between Two Empires

The Petitions of Bosnian Muslim Migrants in the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Archives at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

This paper aims at defining the general tendencies of the 19th century Bosnian Muslim emigrants to the Ottoman Empire and the returnees who decided not to stay in the Ottoman Lands. Although the number of the Bosnian Muslim emigration to the Ottoman Empire seems to be very low, the returnees on the other hand keep the high percentage of the whole Muslim migrants to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century.