The old-Iranian origin of Croats The Iranian theory suggests that the Croats are a tribe from Arachosia, this theory is based solely on linguistic evidence and spread of the Old Croatian ethnonym *xъrvatъ, which is almost certainly a borrowing into Slavic. Srbi majority of \'Slavs\' in former Yugoslavia are not of Slavic origin while Montenegrin Serbs are racially the purest Illyrians (as a result of great racial similarity between them and Dorian tribe of Sfakia in SW Crete). Also the Montenegrins like Illyrians are tall and warlike while Albanians were always controlled by someone and were the last nation in the Balkans to get FREED from their semikin the Turks and whose state was created as a direct influence of Austro-Hungary and Germany. bosnjaci Bosniaks emerged as a distinct Slavic group in the fourteenth century, when a portion of the Slavs living in the Bosnian kingdom converted to Islam, brought in by the Ottoman Turks as they conquered much of the Balkans.