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Byzantine, Rome and Ottoman empires comparison (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Ottoman Empire never ruled in east Arabia (apart from Muscat) or in the central areas, did they?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was the Lahsa eyalet along the Persian gulf for ~100 years, and for the interior I guess the few years immediately after the Wahabbi war would count?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and for the interior I guess

It's just sand. Doesn't really matter. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More people live in that sand than live in Switzerland

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The population of al-Mintaqah ash-Sharqīyah (eastern province) is 5 Million. Population density of 7.3/km^2

The population of Switzerland is 9 million. Population density of 207/km^2.

It's SAND, bro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

For a start, that's the bit that is roughly the same area as the Lahsa eyalet, not the interior. Riyadh province, which is in the middle bit, has eight and a half million people. Add in al-Qassim province which is also in that area and you have ten million.

But also, just generally... five million people is a lot of people. It's not like it's even a particular outlier in terms of density. The eastern province is more densely populated than Canada.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

ottoman borders feel exaggerated

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Interesting, but missing the Islamic empire that conquered all that Byzantine territory in the 600s. It stretched from Pakistan to Spain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then you'd have like double the colors on the map.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's a problem for the map maker.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we can also add the Macedonian Empire while we are at it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well this is the "yurop" community and they didn't control any part of modern day "Europe". No, Turkey isn't European. It's always been Asia Minor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Uh, Macedonia? Greece?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And for me trying to understand the damn thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The Sasanian Empire would be more contemporary.