majority of anatolia was turkish-muslim at that time
p2rismaalapp on
Why is Southeastern Estonia under some weird polity? These areas weren’t conquered by Christian forces before the 1220s.
Blackfire853 on
This seems absolutely impossible to know with this level of confidence given the period, and with weird assumptions like Al-Andalus having a tiny Christian population
Gewoon__ik on
What are these weird ass borders
Aegeansunset12 on
The west shouldn’t attack the Byzantine empire, Christendom shrunk in the region partly because of the 4th crusade
Grzechoooo on
Why is the number so high in Prussia? It’s before the Teutons.
thumb21 on
I’ve got to say I like these maps you have been making. Some people are quite critical and we obviously can never know the exact numbers but these are decent estimates for the time based on what we know presented in an easy to understand format! Looking forward to seeing more!
Whasume on
in the 11th century Poland had massive pagan revolts and there have been observed many instanced of syncretic beliefs later down the years, i find the figure of 95% to be a bit unrealistic
very-odd-goth on
i would very confidently put the cuman-kipchak confederation at 0-5%
Organic_Contract_172 on
Why did Poland stay trad-cath and the Holy Roman Empire didn’t?
Allnamestakkennn on
Ok but why did you group the principalities of Rus together when they were entirely separate, without a formal seat of power, and some were already parting ways?
Morozow on
At that moment, Orthodox people still lived in the East of the Crimean peninsula, residents of the former old Russian principality of Tmutarakan.
The principality itself disappeared from history earlier. But the chronicler Ibn al-Asir writes that the rich Russian inhabitants and merchants fled from there after the Mongol victory.
SpeakerHour9832 on
Propaganda.
Nachooolo on
I’m quite certain that the Christian population of Al-Andalus was higher, seeing that –as far as we know– they only stopped being the majority at the tail-end of the caliphate a bit over a century prior.
verci0222 on
This is not right at all lmao
Gay_mail on
Kievan Rus did not control these lands in Lithuania. The lands shown here as Kievan Rus are literally the Land of Lithuania, originally
0eray on
anatolian seljuks being colored as majority christian is ridiculous
Secret-Ad-5396 on
This is a gross undercounting of christians in Scandinavia lol
Gold-Ad-2581 on
I don’t think so… Poland did not really enforce Christianity till the 14th or 15th century and have a lot of pagan uprising.
ersatz_18 on
Yea bullshit. Mazovia was officially pagan till 1047 with generations to come before christian religion stabilized. In many areas there was no church prior to 15th century. Arkona – sure thing. What sticked my attention are Danish isles of LOL-land Falster and Bornholm. No Christianity there till 1190? Any Danish cap who could elaborate onboard?
zdrbor on
Another proof that there was no Muslims in Bosnia and Hercegovina and Kosovo, until Otomans violent Islamisation parts of these regions.
cubedplusseven on
Wait, were the Crusader states majority Muslim?
I realize that this is after the fall of Jerusalem and that the states were no longer at their height, but I’d image there’d be fair demographic continuity at this point.
Perhaps I just have my history completely wrong, but I thought that part of what enabled the Crusaders to gain a foothold in the Levant was that a large proportion of the population there was Christian at the time, so much of the population responded passively if not with active support.
AlbanianCatholic on
I’d expect Navarra to be at over 95% in 1190, but otherwise, great map!
MiaphysiteCopt on
Is there a map that covers the rest of north Africa
Felevion on
There’s really no way to know this in this timeframe. Not a single one of these polities kept something like census records that recorded religion. The closest thing you could get to that is the Muslim states with Jizya but that wouldn’t tell you the religion of the people in the tax records.
Madman_Sean on
Wallachia and Moldova definitely were christian
Zealousideal-Two9196 on
Why is abkhazia cut out from the rest of georgia?
Tradition96 on
Paganism was eradicated in Norway and Sweden by the late 12th century so those areas should be in the 95+ % group.
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majority of anatolia was turkish-muslim at that time
Why is Southeastern Estonia under some weird polity? These areas weren’t conquered by Christian forces before the 1220s.
This seems absolutely impossible to know with this level of confidence given the period, and with weird assumptions like Al-Andalus having a tiny Christian population
What are these weird ass borders
The west shouldn’t attack the Byzantine empire, Christendom shrunk in the region partly because of the 4th crusade
Why is the number so high in Prussia? It’s before the Teutons.
I’ve got to say I like these maps you have been making. Some people are quite critical and we obviously can never know the exact numbers but these are decent estimates for the time based on what we know presented in an easy to understand format! Looking forward to seeing more!
in the 11th century Poland had massive pagan revolts and there have been observed many instanced of syncretic beliefs later down the years, i find the figure of 95% to be a bit unrealistic
i would very confidently put the cuman-kipchak confederation at 0-5%
Why did Poland stay trad-cath and the Holy Roman Empire didn’t?
Ok but why did you group the principalities of Rus together when they were entirely separate, without a formal seat of power, and some were already parting ways?
At that moment, Orthodox people still lived in the East of the Crimean peninsula, residents of the former old Russian principality of Tmutarakan.
The principality itself disappeared from history earlier. But the chronicler Ibn al-Asir writes that the rich Russian inhabitants and merchants fled from there after the Mongol victory.
Propaganda.
I’m quite certain that the Christian population of Al-Andalus was higher, seeing that –as far as we know– they only stopped being the majority at the tail-end of the caliphate a bit over a century prior.
This is not right at all lmao
Kievan Rus did not control these lands in Lithuania. The lands shown here as Kievan Rus are literally the Land of Lithuania, originally
anatolian seljuks being colored as majority christian is ridiculous
This is a gross undercounting of christians in Scandinavia lol
I don’t think so… Poland did not really enforce Christianity till the 14th or 15th century and have a lot of pagan uprising.
Yea bullshit. Mazovia was officially pagan till 1047 with generations to come before christian religion stabilized. In many areas there was no church prior to 15th century. Arkona – sure thing. What sticked my attention are Danish isles of LOL-land Falster and Bornholm. No Christianity there till 1190? Any Danish cap who could elaborate onboard?
Another proof that there was no Muslims in Bosnia and Hercegovina and Kosovo, until Otomans violent Islamisation parts of these regions.
Wait, were the Crusader states majority Muslim?
I realize that this is after the fall of Jerusalem and that the states were no longer at their height, but I’d image there’d be fair demographic continuity at this point.
Perhaps I just have my history completely wrong, but I thought that part of what enabled the Crusaders to gain a foothold in the Levant was that a large proportion of the population there was Christian at the time, so much of the population responded passively if not with active support.
I’d expect Navarra to be at over 95% in 1190, but otherwise, great map!
Is there a map that covers the rest of north Africa
There’s really no way to know this in this timeframe. Not a single one of these polities kept something like census records that recorded religion. The closest thing you could get to that is the Muslim states with Jizya but that wouldn’t tell you the religion of the people in the tax records.
Wallachia and Moldova definitely were christian
Why is abkhazia cut out from the rest of georgia?
Paganism was eradicated in Norway and Sweden by the late 12th century so those areas should be in the 95+ % group.
Traded Iberia for Anatolia