Herzegovinians
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The Herzegovinians (Hercegovci; sing. Herzegovinian, Hercegovac) are the people who hail from the Herzegovina region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Herzegovinian may also go by the popular nickname of Ero. They may refer to themselves as Bosnian (or any other Bosnian ethnicity such as Bosniak, Croatian, or Serbian).
Herzegovinians can be Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats, or a member of any other ethnic group or religion, that hails from this region which comprises the southern portion of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In the 1991 census, Herzegovina was recorded as having a population of 437,095 inhabitants. The ethnic composition of the population was the following: 206,457 were Croats (47.2%), 112,948 Bosniaks (25.8%), 93,047 Serbs (21.3%), 18,494 Yugoslavs (4.2%), and 6,149 were registered as 'others' (1.4%).
