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CONCLUSION During the migration of the European nations, the Croats settled in Bosnia and Hercegovina. They settled permanently in these two provinces and are there even today. At the beginning they were pagans. Since the eleventh century, however they were either of the Catholic faith or members of the heretical sect called Bogomil's sect. With the Turkish occupation of Bosnia in 1463, the native Croats began gradually to embrace Islam, while the Mooro-Vlachs of the Orthodox faith began to colonize Bosnia and Hercegovina. In spite of all these adverse factors, the Croats of the Islamic and Catholic religion in Bosnia and Hercegovina steadily kept in the ethnic majority of 90%. During the first half of the nineteenth century, however the number of Croats of the Islamic religion considerably decreased as a result of wars and various epidemics. Nevertheless, Croatian Moslems and Catholics still constiute the steady and solid ethnic majority of 55 to 58% of the population in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
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