According to the last Yugoslav census in Bosnia and Herzegovina of 1991, there were 1,596 Macedonians in the country.
Macedonians started migrating to the territory of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of the 20th century.
[2] A new wave of Macedonians followed in the period after the Second World War, when both Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia were part of the newly established Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
[1] The Macedonians mainly settled in towns, namely Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Zenica, Bijeljina, Doboj, Derventa, Mostar, Zvornik, Prijedor and other places.
The other one, the Association of Macedonians of the Republic of Srpska, was founded in 2002 and is based in Banja Luka.