This conclusion can be drawn from the presence of Albanian terms along the Drina River all the way to Srebrenica, which have persisted to the current day in the so-called 'banalacki' hidden dialect.

[7] There are more sources available about Albanians settling in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of Ottoman rule then there are about previous historical epochs.

[10] During the first and especially the second Yugoslavia, again a large number of Albanians, due to the difficult living conditions in the countries in which they lived (Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia), settled in Bosnia and Herzegovina, mainly in the cities: Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zenica, Banja Luka, Doboj, Brcko, Bijelina, Mostar and Trebinje.

[11] The then Albanian exiles in Bosnia and Herzegovina were mainly engaged in bakery, confectionery, jewelry and other crafts.

On April 11, 1970 an Albanian Association (Klub Albanaca/Klubi Shqiptar) was officially opened, with Mr. Sejfudin Axhanela as its first founding president.

The opening ceremony was attended by famous actors Bekim Fehmiu, Ljuba Tadić and the 'Uka i bjeshkeve te nemura' (Vuk sa Prokletija) movie crew.

[13] In the 2013 Bosnian census, there were 2,656 Albanians living in Bosnia, with another 150 people who declared themselves as Shqiptar, Kosovars, Illyrian-Albanian, Bosnian-Albanian etc.