The Ottoman Empire never ruled in east Arabia (apart from Muscat) or in the central areas, did they?
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?
and for the interior I guess
It’s just sand. Doesn’t really matter. 🙃
More people live in that sand than live in Switzerland
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.
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.
ottoman borders feel exaggerated
Interesting, but missing the Islamic empire that conquered all that Byzantine territory in the 600s. It stretched from Pakistan to Spain.
Then you’d have like double the colors on the map.
That’s a problem for the map maker.
Maybe we can also add the Macedonian Empire while we are at it
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.
Uh, Macedonia? Greece?
And for me trying to understand the damn thing
The Sasanian Empire would be more contemporary.
