During the Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, several notable Bosnian Muslim families emerged. These families are commonly grouped into "bey families" (begovske porodice) or "captain families" (kapetanske porodice). The majority of the families originate from Islamicised Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Christian Slavic-speaking population, with several families of Turkic, Arabic and Albanian origin. A large number of the notable Bosnian Muslim families arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina from neighbouring Croatian and Hungarian territories after the Great Turkish War at the end of the 17th or in early 18th century or from Montenegro and Serbia in the 18th century.
The "captain families" (kapetanske porodice) started their service as aghas and dizdars–army commanders in fortresses. They were, for the most part, descendants of Christian converts.
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