Ottoman Conquest of Bosnia

1463

Mehmed II's armies swept into the Bosnian kingdom, executed its last king Stephen Tomasevic at Jajce, and absorbed the province permanently. Bosnia's Bogomil-influenced Christians would convert to Islam in unusual numbers, creating a European Muslim community whose descendants still mark Ottoman history in living memory. The unusual scale of Bosnian conversion to Islam has been attributed to the heterodox Bogomil church, economic incentives, and pragmatism.