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Islam in SLOVENIA

Islam in SLOVENIA

             

 

The Muslims in Slovenia are ethnically Bosnians and Albanians. The Muslims constitute 2.4% of Slovenian population. The Islamic Centre of Ljubljana is headed by Nevzet Porić, general secretary of the Muslim community of Slovenia. Porić said 90 percent of the Muslim in Slovenia are Bosnjak (Bosnian), 8 percent Albanian and 2 percent come from other ethnic branches of the large Slav family of the Balkans.


Demographics of Muslims In Slovenia by ethnicity in 2002

Ethnicity

Muslims

Percentage

Bosniaks

19,923

41.95%

Muslims by nationality

9,328

19.64%

Bosnians (Declared as)

5,724

12.05%

Albanians

5,237

11.03%

Slovenes

1,506

3.17%

Roma

868

1.83%

Montenegrins

634

1.33%

Macedonians

507

1.07%

Yugoslavs (Declared as)

55

0.12%

Serbs

53

0.11%

Croats

30

0.06%

Hungarians

8

0.02%

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817

1.72%

Ethnically undeclared

721

1.52%

Others

445

0.94%

Unknown

308

0.65%

Regionally declared

15

0.03%

Total

47,488

100%
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Slovenia