1990s
In 2000, there were 310,807 Muslims in Switzerland, a five-fold increase on 1980. Much of this community lives in major cities. Muslims were mostly of Turkish origin in 1970, but the Balkans war saw Muslims from ex-Yugoslavia - especially Kosovar Albanians - become the dominant group.
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