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Byzantine, Rome and Ottoman empires comparison (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 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 6 months ago (1 children)

and for the interior I guess

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

More people live in that sand than live in Switzerland

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 6 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.