Turks in Serbia
Turks in Serbia, also known as Serbian Turks are people of Turkish ancestry present in Serbia. Turks have lived on this territory since the Ottoman period. The Turkish minority has traditionally lived in the urban areas of Serbia together with many Muslim Albanians, however in 1830, when the Principality of Serbia was granted autonomy, many Muslim Albanians and Turks emigrated as "muhacirs" to Turkey and by 1868 almost all of the remaining Albanian regiments left Central Serbia, including 3,000 from Belgrade. According to the 2011 census only 647 people declared themselves as Turks, though this does not include the Turkish minority in Kosovo.
