Bosnians
The Bosnians (Bosanci; sing. Bosnian, Bosanac) are a people whose country is Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Bosnian can be a Bosnian Serb, Bosnian Croat or a Bosnian Bosniak, but also a member of any other nationality.
A few hundred years ago the term "Bosniak" had the meaning that the term "Bosnian" has today. Many of the people in Bosnia once called themselves "Bosniaks", including Catholics and Orthodox Christians, but this meaning has since been replaced. During the Austria-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1878 to 1918 the administration of Benjamin Kallay, the Austria-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, enforced the idea of a unitary Bosnian nation (Bosanci) that would incorporate the Catholic Bosnians and Orthodox Bosnians as well as Bosnian Muslims. The idea was fiercely opposed by Croats and Serbs, but also by a number of Bosnian Muslims as it came in time when countries in the region were reinforcing their national and ethnical identity in the process of building their own nation states. This policy further clouded the Bosnian ethnical issue and the official use of the name.
Many people from Bosnia and Herzegovina prefer to call themselves "Bosnians" mostly in unofficial dicourse as well as where such name is accepted as official (most foreign countries). Some even refuse to call themselves anything other than "Bosnians". Examples of people who only identify themselves as "Bosnians"; Sergej Barbarez (1/2 Orthodox Christian, 1/2 Muslim), Branko Đurić (Orthodox Christian), Josip Katalinski (Catholic) and Hamdija Begović (Muslim).
This can be compared to the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina that call themselves Yugoslavs.