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Servais (il/le) @discuss.tchncs.de

6mo ago

Byzantine, Rome and Ottoman empires comparison

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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. 🙃

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests
- Then you'd have like double the colors on the map.
  
  That's a problem for the map maker.
- The Sasanian Empire would be more contemporary.

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