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?
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.
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Roggebrood@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 2y
The Ottoman Empire never ruled in east Arabia (apart from Muscat) or in the central areas, did they?
Skua@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 2y
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?
s_s@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
It's just sand. Doesn't really matter. 🙃
Skua@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 2y
More people live in that sand than live in Switzerland
s_s@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
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.
Skua@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 2y
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.
botorfj@lemdro.id · 4 pts · 2y
ottoman borders feel exaggerated
KevonLooney@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
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
Roggebrood@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 2y
Then you'd have like double the colors on the map.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
That's a problem for the map maker.
Roggebrood@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 2y
Maybe we can also add the Macedonian Empire while we are at it
KevonLooney@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
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.
dudinax@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
Uh, Macedonia? Greece?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
And for me trying to understand the damn thing
s_s@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
The Sasanian Empire would be more contemporary.