The Ottomans imported their feudal system to Bosnia shortly after the take-over, and bestates/b were granted to men, called spahis, in return for military service in times of war. At the beginning of the Ottoman period, b..../b One geographer estimates that there are 350000 ?Bosniaks? in Turkey today, although that figure includes the descendants of Muslim South Slavs who emigrated from the bSandžak/b region during the First Balkan War and later. Another wave of Bosniak emigration ...
