*Keep in mind some of these percentages might be slightly off or outdated. Numbers change all the time, especially with increased migrations. But I believe the general numbers are still valid.*
@@reddykilowatt Yes we are the majority of the population, but we are a protectorate of the USA and the EU where we stopped a Christian Democrat to rule over the country. We're too small and powerless to do anything.
Population Exchanges. So you had instances of Turkish Speaking Christians leaving Greece in exchange for Greek Speaking Muslims. Those are who remain today. Greek Muslims are still a thing, same as Greek Jews, Greek Catholics, Greek Anglicans/Methodists/Evangelicals/Pentecostians etc. The other 98% of the country is Greek Orthodox.
@@General.Knowledge yes that's exactly how population exchanges happened on those days. Resulting in Turkophone Orthodox Greeks and Grecophone Muslim Turks. Religion superceded Nationality in those days. When Nation-States crystallized in the Balkans then the opposite was true. This would remain so until the 1955 Pogrom.
@@General.KnowledgeThracian Muslims were allowed to remain in Greece and Thracian orthodox Greeks were (supposed to be) allowed to stay in Turkey. These were special exceptions to the population exchange. Of course that’s not exactly how it played out for Christians in Turkey.
@@alexhousakos the% of the Greek Orthodoxs who spoke Turkish and moved to Greece is literally the 0,5 of the overall Greeks of Asia Minor...mostly from Cappadocia....while Pontic Greeks and western Anatolian Greeks were overwhelming Greek speaking. The way you stated your post gives a totally wrong reality.
@@General.Knowledge Religion was your ethnicity in the periods before the 19th century. That was the case almost everywhere not just in the Ottoman Empire. You were first what was your religion/culture and then your language or a specific idea of ethnicity as we know it today. We just today we can't understand this anymore. That was the case in Russia, England, Germany etc (but with different undertones and characteristics). So, in the Balkans/anatolia you had people that had their own ancient churches as the Greeks which had the Greek church (the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), the Bulgarians their own, serbs their own, Armenians their own etc Even if the Christian Orthodoxs in the Balkans had to desolve their own churches under the ottomans and to belong all under the Greek Church (the Ecumenical Patriarchate), still the memory, scripts, traditions remained thus they remained as separate identities. Other Christians in the Balkans became Catholics centuries before, as the Croats so they also remained a separate people... While the people that converted to islam, as the albanians or the bosnians had to really "prove" that they are not "Turks" later when they demanded a separate state breaking from the Ottoman Empire, since with the centuries old understanding of the people your religion and culture is what you are. Only after the 19th-early 20th century we have the beginning of what we know today as ethnicity in terms we today understand.
i got shell shocked by seeing the "nobody expects the spanish inquisition" image at 07:38 it was like another lifetime passed me in an instant i need to sit down.
Wanna know something realy disturbing?Thouse "muslim lands",like Bosnia,Albania,and Kosovo,are stolen serbian teritories.And millenias before arrival of muslims and catholics to Balkan,serbs haved their own state in 1500BC,when Serbo Makeridov has created Serbia.And the only reason why muslims and catholics are in europe,instede of Israel.Is to oppress real historical truth,that prooves that slavs are oldest people in europe since 8676BC.
Its also interesting to see that the numbers are just percentages. When you take into account that there are aroudn 6.000.000 Muslims in France or Germany, compared to the all Muslims in the Balkans
Fun facts, Albanians in Albania are majority muslim but Albanians in Macedonia are almost entirely muslim. Turkish muslim population in Eastern Thrace is larger than the populations of more than 40 european countries
Albanians are muslim on the outside,orthodox and catholic on the inside.They eat pork and dont go to mosques or even pray.Only like 10-20% of albania is actually muslim,most of those being practicing islam half seriously(less strict fasting,less praying etc)
@@General.Knowledgehoxha’s regime didnt allow any beliefs, while other countries around albania did. most people had to give up their religion, and some didnt know what they were before the communist regime
@@General.Knowledge because orthodox albanians outside albania have been assimilated.Ioannina no longer has a orthodox albanian population when it used to be a majority,same for preveza and many epirote cities.Skopje was 80% albanian and orthodox majority,only muslims remain now.Albanian kosovars weren't allowed to use churches if they identified as orthodox,the reason for the "serbian" exclaves in kosovo.Albanians in sandzak are also muslim,they now identify as bosnian or a orthodox serbian minority.Bar,podgorica and montenegirn sandzak were all "pacified"=(forcefully assimilated) by montenegro and serbia and in niš the orthodox albanians identified as serbs and turks to avoid expulsion or worse
I would take those percentages with a grain of salt. Many of those muslims are just muslim on paper, but still drink rakjia and have never read the koran.
I live in Ohrid, where by the 2021 census, 18% of the population is Muslim (Turks, Albanians, Balkan Egyptians, Bosniaks, Macedonians as well). The region of Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, South Serbia, probably Sandžak and northern parts of Montenegro were the last regions that remained part of the Ottoman Empire. Albania was somehow isolated during the Balkan Wars and WWI and was also a safe heaven for many Muslims that were leaving with the Ottomans. Many Ottoman nobles were of Albanian origin so there was no destruction of religious monuments, shrines, and no persecution. Kosovo and Vardar Macedonia, along with parts of South Serbia entered the Serbian state, later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but were relatively untouched by the new administration. Only few mosques in my town were torn down, as well as some turbets, but the rest remained. People live in often mixed neighborhoods and respect each others faith. There was some expulsion of Turks from the 1950s here, but to this day it is not clear why Yugoslavia sent them to Turkey. Also, here remained many dervish communities, up to this day, namely the Bektashi Order. Unlike countries that were liberated from the Ottoman realm in the 19th century (like Bulgaria, Greece or Serbia), where there was a vast persecution of Muslims, destruction of monuments, landmarks, population exchange or other, here that was not the case. Many monuments have been reconstructed or restored with the help of the Turkish state agency, and are now saved for many years to come. Hammams, mosques, turbets, madrassas, monuments, tekkes etc. The majority of the Muslims in the region you mention (Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania) are moderate Sunni Muslims, but in the last years there is a presence of more strict branches, like Salafists and others.
Really interesting topic! I always wanted some clarification on this, as I knew some of the historical factors, but you really cleared up many of the smaller details especially.
Yeah this is an importnat point. If you look at statistics for other ones, in Catholic nations especially, you will find the same issue. Portuguese people are around 85% 'Catholic', but the actual amount that practices and fully believes in Catholicism is, I would argue, a small fraction of that.
Depends on what you mean by religious. We in Romania might be 96% religious, I include myself in that percentage, but I never go to church. It's just cultural attachement to the traditional religion of our families doubled by the fact that yeah, atheism is much less frequent than elswhere in Europe. And yes, church attendence is directly proportional to that higher declared religiosity, but nowhere near 50%, much less 96%.
Bosnia in between catholic Croatia and orthodox Serbia. Bosnians also developed independent Christian denomination. This was a factor why more Bosnians converted to islam.
@@prcbukvu2293ja mislim da vishe jugoslovena ima ovde kod nas u Makedoniji i da danashnjeg Generacije koji su rodjene 80tih godina pokushaj im neshto rech protiv Juge ili Tita zadavichete bolan oni ne znaju nashu himnu sadaahnju kako treba ali zato znaju Jugoslovenski i uvek starie generacije pricchuju priche kako se nekad zivelo al smaraju brate uff
The Netherlands has 1.2 million Muslims, the majority of which do not cause any problems. The Muslims are doing reasonably well, there are mayors, politicians of Islamic origin, there is also an Islamic political party in the Dutch parliament. And for years the Dutch parliament also had a Moroccan woman as chairman. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the Netherlands, partly due to migration, and more and more Islamic schools, secondary schools and universities are being opened. Young women with an Islamic background do particularly well at Dutch universities and are on par with Dutch female students.
I am a native Dutch Muslim my parents converted to Islam in the 1970s in Morocco greetings from The Hague im happy that's its the fastest growing religion in the Netherlands
@@hero4963 You shouldn't be. That your religion is growing in your own country may sound good on paper. Until you remember the reason for it is because your country is getting invaded and your own people are being bred out of existense.
Whats really interesting when you look at some maps is how with albanians its usually only the inner population that remained christian. It might be because those that didnt change religion were assimilated with most obvious examples being those in greece but also those in montenegro, macedonia and serbia. Paired with the fact that religious identity was closely related to national identity in most balkan countries maybe there was religious conversion to distance yourself from your neighbours. At least in the case of albanians.
Could you do a video on the minority languages of Europe? Many of the people that speak them formerly had their own independent nation states, like the Sorbs and the Frisians!
Don’t Talk shi* here propaganda kid, the glob knows what the Serbs due witsch the minorities in Jugoslavia Look to you serbia they leave more people the Country than in Kosovo kid!
Bro, it’s like you read my mind. I learned Dua Lipa was Muslim the other day (from Kosovo) and I went down an entire rabbit hole on this subject. Most of these regions are non-practicing, which I think is why we don’t have a strong association with those countries as we might with places like the Middle East, North Africa or Malaysia.
Yeah. I have a kosovo-albanian aquaintance (she grew up in Kosovo) and she was actually surprised to learn that Islam was the largest religion in Kosovo (she grew up in a (barely) Christian home I believe)
@@General.KnowledgePoles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Romanians, non ethnic Turks Bulgarians, Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Montenegrins, non ethnic Albanians Macedonians, Greeks, Italians, Maltese are strongly opposed to Islamist culture, Swiss, Austrians, Portuguese, and Spanish Spaniards have actually contradictory views, they are almost in the middle, while British, Dutch, Belgians, French, Germans, Albanians, Bosniaks, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes view Islamist culture positively.
The color of Islam is sometimes green like the green bandanas of Hamas and shawls of 12 Imami shias, who are all fake and Zionists. Green shawls is what the followers of Dajjal wear as the prophet said in a prophecy. But it is often the darkness and the moon and silver associated with Islam since it is controlled by Kabbalists and Satanists. That is why the symbol of Islam is a moon as in the Kabbalah it is associated with "evil" angel Gabriel while the Sun is behind fake Jesus in church paintings, and also that is why the fake scholars say it is forbidden to wear gold but ok to wear silver and everything beautiful and joyful is "harram" or forbidden like art such as music, paintings, statues, etc, even tho in Eslaum we know people around the prophet had toys with animal faces, in the Goraun prophet Esa made bird shapes out of clay, prophet Suleiman build statues....so it is the crypto-Jews fake Mosslems who invented this for Islam because in their religion they hate Jesus and Suleiman or Solomon who they say became a disbeliever. Colors of real Eslaum is the rainbow which the Zionists today associate with children because in the heart children feel the goodness of rainbow and then instead to say Eslaum originally is the nation of rainbow they associated the rainbow with homosexuality and other sexual perversions and created Islam of darkness and frustration. This is why Saudis and Ayatolahs wear Jewish dresses and have black uniforms, especially Ayatollahs, because it says in the Talmud that if a Jew wants to spread evil he must move to a place where people dont know him well and wear black with a black hat, as did Khomeini who flew in from France, and thats why the women in Saudi wear black Jewish hijabs to associate it with darkness and depression and grief and frustration, because the Saudi Kingdom and gov of Iran are Yahudis or Kabbalist Jews. Thats why you have beliefs and laws and accusations on the media that Islam teaches killing apostates, rape, targeting civilians, no painting of creatures, circumcision for male babies and kids( often the media complains only about female genital mutilation because in Judaism mutilation is only for males as in the Kabbalah God is female...also that is why in the west a woman gets everything after the divorce, man has to give house, children, money, car, give more money etc because of Kabbalah), God ordering Abraham to slaughter his son....because it is Judaism and the media associates to Mosslems what the Jews believe and actually target those of Mosslems who oppose Jewish infiltration and call them "terrorists" while Saudi, Iran, Erdogan, etc are all allies of the Zionists and are Zionists themselves but are shown on TV as the moderates or good allies or the only real Islam state fighting Zionists whle in reality when USA invaded Irak, Iran helped USA to invade, and after they massacred the people USA gave entire Irak to the Iran, even one of their actors, Trump, admitted it during the TV show debates for fake elections show, only he said it was a "mistake" lol.
@@Tap_Zone Cyprus is but us europeans usually forget they exist. Plus they don't have a native population but rather are made up of greeks and turks and they follow each respective religion so not much of a discussion to be had about religon there.
Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Romanians, non ethnic Turks Bulgarians, Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Montenegrins, non ethnic Albanians Macedonians, Greeks, Italians, Maltese are strongly opposed to Islamist culture, Swiss, Austrians, Portuguese, and Spanish Spaniards have actually contradictory views, they are almost in the middle, while British, Dutch, Belgians, French, Germans, Albanians, Bosniaks, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes view Islamist culture positively.
@@mariobricalli They are. The border is the Caucus mountains and the Ural mountains., Azerbaijan is to the west of the Urals and the north of the Caucus. Cyprus is member of the European Union and part of Europe in every other organisation and/or all political/cultural groupings.
I never realized how long and for how much of the past that Montenegro was independent! When I was born/a child, it was a relatively unknown part of Yugoslavia. It seems way more like that was always meant to revert back to an independent state now.
Definitely, I feel the same way. I grew up learning it was just a small piece of land that decided to break away from Serbia in the midst of the mess that was the collapse of Yugoslavia. As you look into it you understand how much of a historical background they have.
Westeners dont really know our story. Even when whole balcan peninsula was under otoman rule Montenegro wasnt. Our people lived hard life high in the mountains 1000m+ above sea level to avoid ottomans and preserve christianity and freedom. Even if Ottomans came they had hard time fighting us on our land. They lost many battles with unexpectedly high loses because our country is very rocky, mountainous with deep canyons and few valleys therefore very impractical for conqering. Ottomans managed tu burn down our capital Cetinje but thats about it, even when Montenegro was de facto part of the Ottoman empire we were free of tax 'harač' and never gave our children to become janichars. Montenegro was beacon of freedome and hope for liberation and unification of all serbs or southern slavs; Montenegro gave Serbia Karadjordje and whole royal dynasty Karadjordjevic is of montenegrin origin, father of Nemanjic dinasty Stefan Nemanja is born in Montenegro, Novak Djokovic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, even Slobodan Milosevic, all from Montenegrin fathers. The thing is montenegrins and serbs are indeed one people but we montenegrins are a bit tougher 💪😅
Georgia is Orthodox, Turkey is Islamic. Only Western Turkey, the coastal regions and of course Eastern Thrace can be considered European in culture and or geography. The Anatolian heartlands are different, and not European. The Kurds also not.
Hi! Thank you for the video. I know you are welcoming the suggestions regarding pronunciation. As for Russian region of Dagestan. G in “Dagestan” is a hard g like in “Great Britain”. Thank you again for your work!
@@jonbest5205 @jonbest5205 approving of the ESG agenda - so trying to "save the planet" through lower CO2 emissions, vegetarianism or veganism, thinking that white people need to atone for something they did wrong while others get a pass and that it's wrong to make fun of all the lgbtq+ letters and symbols. And that men are bad and need to be tamed.
A right-wing dictatorship is exactly what Romania needs to become completely ruined. Soon Romanians will flock to even Bulgaria and the non-EU Balkan states.
10:14 Worth mentioning that this isn’t quite because of Central Serbia gaining independence later than Greece, rather because the region of Sandžak was a part of Bosnia for a long time. Parts of Sandžak, especially Novi Pazar, are majority Bosniak (just like Bosnia itself) and is Muslim.
hey great video but i know a reason why Montenegro has a high Muslim population, it is because of the Bosnian war of independence against Yugoslavia where a lot of people found refuge in Montenegro but never returned as Montenegro has better stranded of live and wage and more but great work on the video keep it up man.
Thats just plain wrong. Muslim population in Serbian and Montenegrin Sandžak, both Slavic and Albanian, survived because they were able to frustrate every attempt to expel them.
As a Dutch, I don't care what others people believes are. I can live with anyone as long as we respect each other and don't tell what to do or how to live, than hell breaks loose
It works with European Muslims because they're European like the rest so culturally there aren't that many differences. I met some Lebanese Christians that resembled more their Muslims neighbours than European Christians, because while the religion might be the same, the approach towards it is quite different
The video does not go into Bulgaria that much but beside the earlier ethnic cleansings conducted by Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria during their independence movements around the Balkan Wars period, Bulgaria also had a very active forced assimilation and expulsion policy during the Communist regime that was in place all the way until 1990s. Turks were forced to pick up Slavic names, convert to Orthodoxy, or were kicked out of citizenship and expelled. From 1950 to 1990, about 1 million Turks as well as other Muslims escaped to Turkey from Bulgaria.
These number rates are not because of Ottomans but anti-Islamic propaganda. In fact, Ottomans didn't force or intimidate any of their non-muslim subjects to embrace Islam because, in Islam, the faith doesn't go into hearts by force. But they encouraged them tried the locals to warm towards Islam. Some of them embraced and some didn't. It is a long process. The numbers would have been substentially larger if it hadn't happen the anti-Islamic propaganda and muslim deportation in the Post-Ottoman period.
Janissaries were stolen christian children turned into muslim faith and tought to kill their parents. Muslims had no taxes to pay . Christians payed in blood , in goods, for preserving their faith. Christians started eating pork only because the muslims would steal all their food.
just a headsup, the S in muslim and Islam is pronounced as an S not a Z, idk how the westerners started pronouncing them Izlam and Muzlim in the first place lmao great video as usual
@Donerci_Pikacu_Usta I would agree if we were talking about some odd sounded letter or something, but this is an easy word, you don't hear them calling Iceland Izland
In Bosnia we have our own brand of Islam. Islam that was made adaptible to European continent and our culture. So, basically. It doesn't matter how many Bosniaks are practicing or not, we are aware where we live and who we are, and that is Europeans.
@@prcbukvu2293you achieved the exact opposite .You said a lot more about yourself than about anyone else .So much about your culture. and civilisation.
Love Bosnians. Great folks to drink together. Yet the following day many may still go to a mosque for their prayer. Totally secular with beliefs considered a cultural thingy.
Most Albanians are only Muslim on paper, they don’t really practice their faith. I think Bosnians are more religious but they have similar circumstances
I would add also that between Hungary and Greece there has pretty much always been a “power vacuum” even during Roman times. Those provinces weren’t huge population centers, had a small economy and didn’t contribute much to the empire. The situation may have persisted, to be very honest, until fairly recently. A perfect scenario for a strong empire to influence their culture, which the ottomans clearly did.
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden that which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. Quran 9:29
[Surah At-Tawbah: 13] Fadel Soliman: Will you not combat a people who have reneged on their oaths and have advanced forward to evict the Messenger, and it was they who initiated(hostilities) against you? Do you fear them? It is Allah who is worthier of being feared, if you are believers.
@HarisP000 For it to be closer to 55%, Croats would have to make up around 15% population yet they are more likely at 8-9% now because they have fell under 300 000 people. Serbs are at around 28-29%.
Is it possible that no one could have at least mentioned that all these territories were taken from Serbia?!?! 1912 Britain did not allow the Serbs to liberate Albania from Turkey, but gave that temperature to the Albanians. Likewise, in 1995, it gave half of Bosnia to the Muslims from Yugoslavia, even though serbs were the majority in Bosnia. And Kosovo was taken from Serbia in 1999 by bombing.
Serbs were the majority in the 90s in Bosnia 😂? What a great joke... Then explain why were my people including myself ethnically cleansed in the Podrinje region of Bosnia (in the eastern region if you don't know where I'm talking about)?
Remember that the non-believer numbers doesn't mean that the rest are believers. In Norway 50% say they don't believe in a god. - But only 30% say they _do_ believe in a god. (20% Christians, 4% muslims, 6% other religion or belief in a god without any religion) - The remaining 20% are people who answered "unsure" "i believe sometimes" and "i think there is something greater than us, but it is not a god"
Iskam was not imposed by conquering the country and there would not be a large number of Christians. Islam does not have the practice of imposing religion or inquisition, nor did Muslims commit mass extermination of people of other faiths. As a Bosnian, I have every right to say that.
@@DeKeverslanguage, currency, monarch, government, sports, fashion, food, history, You have got a lot in common just sounds like you’ve forgotten about them
@@fasggasgasdf Albanians were in Albania and Serbs were on kosovo. That is a part of Serbia, Kosovo and Metohija. Many Serbian monasteries are there, built by Serbian kings. When Tito become the president of Yugoslavia, then Albanians from Albania slowly populate that area since he gave them a big autonomy. And today you have that self declaimed country called Kosovo, which they stolen from Serbian people there.
@@Titeljantito didn’t let Albanians go to kosovo wtf are u talking about. Albania was a strict comunist country for over 40 years until 1991 no albanians were able to leave or enter albania at all. Serbs in kosovo were a minority since at least the 14th century
I'm a Muslim, I was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I love my own, I respect other people's, I love everything that was born in my Bosnia and Herzegovina, it doesn't matter religion or race, my Bosnia and Herzegovina is the most beautiful in the whole world, and my Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox, Jews, Roma, we are all of flesh and blood, the same love your own, respects others
I asked our translator if many Kosovars attend the mosques. She said it was mostly old people. She was pretty young so I didn’t ask what age she considered old.
Houari Boumedienne said something like, we will conquer the northern hemisphere, not with force but through our children. The wombs of our women will give us victory. He pointed out western people on average get fewer children still and Muslims still breed vigorously.
I feel like now a days ppl are quick to shame Spain and Portugal with the Reconquista (which they did do awful things) but it's a doble standard when Ottomons were expanding and conquering others nations and forcibly convert or expel christians, France may even be a muslim state were it not for the battle of tours.
*Video about Muslim Europe* 🇪🇺🇹🇷Türkiye & 🇦🇿Azerbaijan left the chat… 😅 (given they’re members of the Council of Europe, Eurovision, European Political Community, NATO, EU Candidate - & have no equivalent ‘Asian’ alliances)
☪️ European majority muslim countries: 🇦🇱 🇧🇦 🇽🇰* *partially recognized ☪️ "Eurasian" muslim majority countries: 🇦🇿 🇹🇷 🇰🇿* *mostly described as Asian, but sometimes as Eurasian ✝️ ☦️ "Eurasian" christian majority countries: 🇬🇪 🇦🇲 🇷🇺 Ps: Eurasian used as term for transcontinental countries located in the borders of Europe and Asia, or a country that has parts in both continents (Turkey and Russia).
@@igorlopes7589Anatolians were not Greek but they were close to Greeks in terms of genetics and culture, later on Anatolians are Hellenized, so they become Greco Anatolian
Bosnia was mainly Christian for most of its history. Before the Ottoman Turkish invasion of Bosnia in 1463 AD there were no muslims or Serbs living in Bosnia. In fact the muslim population started to increase in Sarajevo region only after the "Great Raid" into Bosnia by Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1697 AD. When Prince Eugene of Savoy left Bosnia about 40,000 Roman Catholics left the Sarajevo region and went back with him to Croatia (Slavonia).
Another reason for the low percentage of Protestants in Europe is lack of interest in church. There are people who believe in some greater power, but are not interested in attending, joining, donating to an organization aka church. For further depth on Islam in Bosnia, I would recommend finding Rare Earth videos from Feb 2020 where Evan Hadfield visits and talks about the religious history there
The Albanian statistic is an outlier here because the Albanian society is highly irreligious, more so than most European countries. Albania has never had an institutional religious minded society and statistics are mere heritage based numbers where people generally select one choice over the other on the census based on their grandparents knowledge. Portraying Albania as a "Muslim" country is so wrong in many aspects. It doesn't have much of religious heritage apart from a few mosques here and there (that are empty 99% of the time btw). Its culture, ideals and emancipation is not inline with Islamic principles or the "Muslim world" at all. Less than 2.5% are considered as practicing a religion and more often it is the Christian areas who are more conservative. They certainly have their own culture and identity and don't use religion as a means for these two like some Bosnians do for example of Muslim countries in ME. No religious history, heritage or ideals. Highly irreligious society and very European oriented. Their flag, their biggest heroes and venerated renaissance leaders are more "Christian" minded (secular really) than anything Islamic. Knowing Albania well, one would make a fundamental mistake of calling it "Muslim". Albania's Prime Minister and many of its Presidents have always stated "Albania is not a Muslim country but a place where there are Muslims, Christians and other denominations that live in total harmony of a people bound by ethnicity and language (not religion). Religion is a private and personal matter for Albanians." Kosovo, being a little brother to Albania have always idealised Albania is this regard and them being a fairly new entity, you would expect them to continue in this direction.
I would not agree on Kosovo because they didn't live during Yugoslavia under strong regime comparing toAlbania under Enver so I would disagree with those expetations. I worked with both, Kosovaris and Albanians and I see that on Kosovo religion plays a big role.
Bosnia and Albania are officially secular countries. Also, a large number of people, although they declare themselves as Muslims since they were under communism for a long time, do not practice it like other Muslims, they are culturally different, they eat pork, drink alcohol, do not wear hijab, speak different languages (except for a smaller part who are hardcore religious).
Theirs three are native Europeans who converted to islam with Turkish pushing. They’re not Arabs or any of that and apart from the Yugoslav war they’re all pretty chill. The Albanian deal is ethnic rivalry not religious.
reconquista made by spaniards who lives in iberia. you are independent because of ambitions of russia which is a foreign power. its definitely not the same thing.
Low percentage of the muslims in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece is a result of pogroms that was done in those countries after they got independence muslims were either forced to move to Turkey or to convert into Christianity or killed.
Lol..The only guys who committed genocide were the Ottoman Colonisers. And these Turkish Colonisers haven't even apologised for the Genocide committed against 2 million Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Christians in 1915 by Ottoman Caliphate.
Dagestan isn't Tatar though. And Chechnya isn't Turkic at all. Also would've been nice had you included Kazakhstan. Yes only a tiny bit of it is in Europe but that tiny bit is big enough to fit 10 European countries
Bosnian muslims in most cases arent that muslim. They drink and they are pretty chill and open minden unlike the ones from arab and middle eastern countries. I just wanted to point it out cause i think western people might not know the difference
I need to make an intervention here. Albania is not a "Muslim country". During the communist regime it was in fact declared as an Atheist country (the first in the world) and remained so for a a while. Religion was not permitted at all and all the religious institutions were used as schools, gyms, event venues etc. So, in reality the numbers of people that practice any kind of religion are quite low (likely less than 10% in total). Before the Ottoman conquest, the most common religion for Albanians used to be Eastern Orthodox, as they were part of the Byzantine Empire (many of them on the north-western regions were Roman Catholic, because of the proximity with the Venetians. After being conquered by the ottomans, many Albanians, especially those in the east and north-east had to convert for various reasons (less taxes, fear, job opportunities, education, other forms of pressure, etc)...but it was always common knowledge that whatever their religion was, it was only at surface level, and that their true religion would always be their ethnicity...in order for these peoples to survive the centuries' long occupation. All these religions co-exist happily and their institutions are quite often situated very close to one another in the Albanian territories. You'll frequently find a church and a mosque facing each-other only a few metres away. Nowadays, marriages between families of different religious backgrounds/heritage are also completely normal and accepted by all.
Bosnia and Hercegovina: serbs were the major ethnical group at all censuses until 1879 to 1961. Muslims are major ethnical group since census in 1971 till now. In 1991 there were 43% muslims and 48% christians (31% serbs and 17% croats). In 1991 serbs were owner of more than 51% of all BiH land. Western countries forced Bosnia and Hercegovina to be muslim country inspite less than 50% muslims. That resulted with bloody war.
Fun fact, Northern Macedonia is likely to become Muslim Majority by 2050, since already a majority of its youth are Muslim. Making it the soon to be 4th European Muslim country.
@@maisa5943 Because most of them are illegals and all the hey do is cause scandals and crime. They don't care about this country and just want more autonomy and rights like they did in Kosovo
@@maisa5943 Okay, listen i'm not typing a 3rd reply again because RUclips for some reason removes them. They cause most crime and scandals and they claim this land and want autonomy
Wrong, the very title “muslim” country is wrong, I say it for Bosnia Hercegovina. We are multi-ethnic very mixed country. There are Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats, Romas, and different many minority. Also to call a country a muslim country you should have sharia law, which is not established here.
You say that Protestantism leads counties to become less religious, then immediately use Czechia, a formerly majority Catholic country, as an example of this.
its worth mentioning the hussite religion, the proto-protestant denomination of christianity which started in Czechia. Its followers were the first protestant christians before Martin Luthers speech in 1517
Muslim in Balkan is the best muslim, they more tolerate, natives most importantly doesn't bring their ideology to other country like what happened in Sweden
*Keep in mind some of these percentages might be slightly off or outdated. Numbers change all the time, especially with increased migrations. But I believe the general numbers are still valid.*
Do Zoroastrians next!
@@FlamingBalladswhy? where are they a majority?
Love your videos!💚
@@reddykilowatt Largest Minority works too.
@@reddykilowatt Yes we are the majority of the population, but we are a protectorate of the USA and the EU where we stopped a Christian Democrat to rule over the country. We're too small and powerless to do anything.
Population Exchanges. So you had instances of Turkish Speaking Christians leaving Greece in exchange for Greek Speaking Muslims. Those are who remain today. Greek Muslims are still a thing, same as Greek Jews, Greek Catholics, Greek Anglicans/Methodists/Evangelicals/Pentecostians etc.
The other 98% of the country is Greek Orthodox.
Oh okay! That's interesting. I imagined they were mostly being exchanged on religion basis rather than ethnicity.
@@General.Knowledge yes that's exactly how population exchanges happened on those days. Resulting in Turkophone Orthodox Greeks and Grecophone Muslim Turks.
Religion superceded Nationality in those days. When Nation-States crystallized in the Balkans then the opposite was true.
This would remain so until the 1955 Pogrom.
@@General.KnowledgeThracian Muslims were allowed to remain in Greece and Thracian orthodox Greeks were (supposed to be) allowed to stay in Turkey. These were special exceptions to the population exchange. Of course that’s not exactly how it played out for Christians in Turkey.
@@alexhousakos the% of the Greek Orthodoxs who spoke Turkish and moved to Greece is literally the 0,5 of the overall Greeks of Asia Minor...mostly from Cappadocia....while Pontic Greeks and western Anatolian Greeks were overwhelming Greek speaking. The way you stated your post gives a totally wrong reality.
@@General.Knowledge Religion was your ethnicity in the periods before the 19th century. That was the case almost everywhere not just in the Ottoman Empire. You were first what was your religion/culture and then your language or a specific idea of ethnicity as we know it today. We just today we can't understand this anymore. That was the case in Russia, England, Germany etc (but with different undertones and characteristics).
So, in the Balkans/anatolia you had people that had their own ancient churches as the Greeks which had the Greek church (the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), the Bulgarians their own, serbs their own, Armenians their own etc
Even if the Christian Orthodoxs in the Balkans had to desolve their own churches under the ottomans and to belong all under the Greek Church (the Ecumenical Patriarchate), still the memory, scripts, traditions remained thus they remained as separate identities.
Other Christians in the Balkans became Catholics centuries before, as the Croats so they also remained a separate people...
While the people that converted to islam, as the albanians or the bosnians had to really "prove" that they are not "Turks" later when they demanded a separate state breaking from the Ottoman Empire, since with the centuries old understanding of the people your religion and culture is what you are. Only after the 19th-early 20th century we have the beginning of what we know today as ethnicity in terms we today understand.
The only reason Bosnia is at 51% is because of autonomous Serb region. If you factor that out, its much higher for rest of Bosnia.
So what?
@@akulakaboomassimilate republic of serpska
@@Lister-EyadNo give Srpska to serbia
@@kingpredator117Why isn't it a part of Serbia?
Don't worry serbs are going out from Bosnia in large numbers, percentage of Muslims in Bosnia is already around 60% at this point
i got shell shocked by seeing the "nobody expects the spanish inquisition" image at 07:38 it was like another lifetime passed me in an instant i need to sit down.
Ironically, on another youtube channel right now, there's a history of the Spanish monarchy and the same subject comes up
@@lp-xl9ld UsefulCharts?
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Wanna know something realy disturbing?Thouse "muslim lands",like Bosnia,Albania,and Kosovo,are stolen serbian teritories.And millenias before arrival of muslims and catholics to Balkan,serbs haved their own state in 1500BC,when Serbo Makeridov has created Serbia.And the only reason why muslims and catholics are in europe,instede of Israel.Is to oppress real historical truth,that prooves that slavs are oldest people in europe since 8676BC.
@@Jasmin.M-hz5ty 💀💀💀
Someone saying "reconquista" with a Portuguese accent for a change its delightful. Thank you sir.
Cool
he's portuguese
"reconquista" are both Castilian Spanish and Portuguese words for "reconquest".
@@HalifaxHercules sure, but the pronunciation is very different.
Its also interesting to see that the numbers are just percentages. When you take into account that there are aroudn 6.000.000 Muslims in France or Germany, compared to the all Muslims in the Balkans
8% in France
6 million Muslims are in France. And in Germany there are 4 million. So Europe has more Muslims than the Balkans together
Good point! Some countries with lower percentages end up having higher absolute numbers.
@@hasinabegum1038 8,5%
@@bujartola Wrong you forgot Istanbul and thrace, at least 10m+ Turkish Muslims live in the European/Balkan part of Turkey.
Fun facts, Albanians in Albania are majority muslim but Albanians in Macedonia are almost entirely muslim. Turkish muslim population in Eastern Thrace is larger than the populations of more than 40 european countries
Albanians are muslim on the outside,orthodox and catholic on the inside.They eat pork and dont go to mosques or even pray.Only like 10-20% of albania is actually muslim,most of those being practicing islam half seriously(less strict fasting,less praying etc)
@@Godssecondcomingissoon Albanians from albania generally don't care about religion, doesn't matter if Christian or Muslim
Interesting about Albanians! Why do you think the percentage of Albanians abroad who are muslim is higher than those at home?
@@General.Knowledgehoxha’s regime didnt allow any beliefs, while other countries around albania did. most people had to give up their religion, and some didnt know what they were before the communist regime
@@General.Knowledge because orthodox albanians outside albania have been assimilated.Ioannina no longer has a orthodox albanian population when it used to be a majority,same for preveza and many epirote cities.Skopje was 80% albanian and orthodox majority,only muslims remain now.Albanian kosovars weren't allowed to use churches if they identified as orthodox,the reason for the "serbian" exclaves in kosovo.Albanians in sandzak are also muslim,they now identify as bosnian or a orthodox serbian minority.Bar,podgorica and montenegirn sandzak were all "pacified"=(forcefully assimilated) by montenegro and serbia and in niš the orthodox albanians identified as serbs and turks to avoid expulsion or worse
I would take those percentages with a grain of salt. Many of those muslims are just muslim on paper, but still drink rakjia and have never read the koran.
Bosnians and Kosovars are somewhat religious but not Muslim.100% true about Albanians
You're so right. Many Muslims in Spain when no other Muslim is around tell you they don't even believe in God.
Because they're European
Ah yes, Muslim colonization certainly left an impact on the Balkans.
So did Slavic colonization
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@@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBadSlavic outbreed you
@@DeKevers Lmao cry to your reddit friends when that fails buddy
Who says only 'Euros' colonize?
I live in Ohrid, where by the 2021 census, 18% of the population is Muslim (Turks, Albanians, Balkan Egyptians, Bosniaks, Macedonians as well). The region of Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, South Serbia, probably Sandžak and northern parts of Montenegro were the last regions that remained part of the Ottoman Empire. Albania was somehow isolated during the Balkan Wars and WWI and was also a safe heaven for many Muslims that were leaving with the Ottomans. Many Ottoman nobles were of Albanian origin so there was no destruction of religious monuments, shrines, and no persecution. Kosovo and Vardar Macedonia, along with parts of South Serbia entered the Serbian state, later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but were relatively untouched by the new administration. Only few mosques in my town were torn down, as well as some turbets, but the rest remained. People live in often mixed neighborhoods and respect each others faith. There was some expulsion of Turks from the 1950s here, but to this day it is not clear why Yugoslavia sent them to Turkey. Also, here remained many dervish communities, up to this day, namely the Bektashi Order. Unlike countries that were liberated from the Ottoman realm in the 19th century (like Bulgaria, Greece or Serbia), where there was a vast persecution of Muslims, destruction of monuments, landmarks, population exchange or other, here that was not the case. Many monuments have been reconstructed or restored with the help of the Turkish state agency, and are now saved for many years to come. Hammams, mosques, turbets, madrassas, monuments, tekkes etc. The majority of the Muslims in the region you mention (Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania) are moderate Sunni Muslims, but in the last years there is a presence of more strict branches, like Salafists and others.
Interesting information bro thanks for sharing. I am from Ohrid on my mothers side. Beautiful place, visited many years ago.
Really interesting topic! I always wanted some clarification on this, as I knew some of the historical factors, but you really cleared up many of the smaller details especially.
Ottoman empire is responsible
Hope they can get themselves together and rise in atheism
@@bloemkoolendestreetgang450 bro so offended about muslim they live on his head rent free
Ottoman are not responsible we acepted islam in order to save our nation against vatican and east ortodox church.
@@bloemkoolendestreetgang450atheist today don't know what women is and they have bajilion genders no thank you.
@@Unemi134If by that you mean Albania no lmao. Albanians literally just converted for the sake of taxes and political status
Most people in Those countries aren’t really religious.Specially Albania is extremely secular even compared to western Nations
Yeah this is an importnat point. If you look at statistics for other ones, in Catholic nations especially, you will find the same issue. Portuguese people are around 85% 'Catholic', but the actual amount that practices and fully believes in Catholicism is, I would argue, a small fraction of that.
Fr, no Muslim Albanian I know, does practice his religion
@@MaximusAugustusOrthodoxSame for most albanian christians
Depends on what you mean by religious. We in Romania might be 96% religious, I include myself in that percentage, but I never go to church. It's just cultural attachement to the traditional religion of our families doubled by the fact that yeah, atheism is much less frequent than elswhere in Europe. And yes, church attendence is directly proportional to that higher declared religiosity, but nowhere near 50%, much less 96%.
@@lucianboar3489Romanians definitely more religious Then Albanians
Bosnia in between catholic Croatia and orthodox Serbia. Bosnians also developed independent Christian denomination. This was a factor why more Bosnians converted to islam.
Yeah exactly
Finally someone that knows. Also they were called "bosanski kristjani" or Bosnian cristians.
Both Catholics and Orthodox despised them and considered them heretics. Then they get mad when Bosnians convert to a different religion.
@@eclectic505krivo,većina je uzela vjeru azijskih osvajača zbog lakšeg života,tako je i u kratko Titovo doba najviše Jugoslovena bilo u BiH!
@@prcbukvu2293ja mislim da vishe jugoslovena ima ovde kod nas u Makedoniji i da danashnjeg Generacije koji su rodjene 80tih godina pokushaj im neshto rech protiv Juge ili Tita zadavichete bolan oni ne znaju nashu himnu sadaahnju kako treba ali zato znaju Jugoslovenski i uvek starie generacije pricchuju priche kako se nekad zivelo al smaraju brate uff
The Netherlands has 1.2 million Muslims, the majority of which do not cause any problems. The Muslims are doing reasonably well, there are mayors, politicians of Islamic origin, there is also an Islamic political party in the Dutch parliament. And for years the Dutch parliament also had a Moroccan woman as chairman. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the Netherlands, partly due to migration, and more and more Islamic schools, secondary schools and universities are being opened. Young women with an Islamic background do particularly well at Dutch universities and are on par with Dutch female students.
Not 1.2 million man
I am a native Dutch Muslim my parents converted to Islam in the 1970s in Morocco greetings from The Hague im happy that's its the fastest growing religion in the Netherlands
This data is 2010-15 when Netherlands have 500K to 650K Muslim now nearly 1 million
@@hero4963 So you're not dutch just because you were born there doesn't mean anything you come from Morocco
@@hero4963 You shouldn't be. That your religion is growing in your own country may sound good on paper. Until you remember the reason for it is because your country is getting invaded and your own people are being bred out of existense.
Very interesting video, thank you. I was totally not aware of the population exchange between Turkey and Greece.
Greece was repopulated many times throughout the history, 4 times only during Middle Ages
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Whats really interesting when you look at some maps is how with albanians its usually only the inner population that remained christian. It might be because those that didnt change religion were assimilated with most obvious examples being those in greece but also those in montenegro, macedonia and serbia. Paired with the fact that religious identity was closely related to national identity in most balkan countries maybe there was religious conversion to distance yourself from your neighbours. At least in the case of albanians.
Could you do a video on the minority languages of Europe? Many of the people that speak them formerly had their own independent nation states, like the Sorbs and the Frisians!
By 1931 census in Kosovo lived 27% the Serbs. By last census there is less then 5% Serbs in Kosovo and ethnic cleansing is still in the process.
Nope, you have no proof of that
@@Drilaaaa1912 just check public available info about censuses in Kosovo, you intruder from Caucasus.
Serbs tried ethnic cleansing, when failed they left Kosovo.
@@hamzakhan9597 ahahaha, logic for intruders from Caucasus with IQ
Don’t Talk shi* here propaganda kid, the glob knows what the Serbs due witsch the minorities in Jugoslavia
Look to you serbia they leave more people the Country than in Kosovo kid!
Bro, it’s like you read my mind. I learned Dua Lipa was Muslim the other day (from Kosovo) and I went down an entire rabbit hole on this subject. Most of these regions are non-practicing, which I think is why we don’t have a strong association with those countries as we might with places like the Middle East, North Africa or Malaysia.
Yeah. I have a kosovo-albanian aquaintance (she grew up in Kosovo) and she was actually surprised to learn that Islam was the largest religion in Kosovo (she grew up in a (barely) Christian home I believe)
her parents were muslim. she was born in london.
Oh, they are practicing all right. Why do you think Mujahedeen fought in Bosnia and Kosovo?
She's not muslim. Her parents were former muslims.
@@Spacemongerr I am not saying she is lying, but the truth is something else.
I am from that region...
Another great video
Thanks!
@@General.KnowledgePoles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Romanians, non ethnic Turks Bulgarians, Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Montenegrins, non ethnic Albanians Macedonians, Greeks, Italians, Maltese are strongly opposed to Islamist culture, Swiss, Austrians, Portuguese, and Spanish Spaniards have actually contradictory views, they are almost in the middle, while British, Dutch, Belgians, French, Germans, Albanians, Bosniaks, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes view Islamist culture positively.
As a muslim, Green is not main color of Islam.Our Prophet Mohammed (SW) Used the White or Black colored Flag.
You Can Google For This.
Green was prophet Muhammad saw Favorite color
The color of Islam is sometimes green like the green bandanas of Hamas and shawls of 12 Imami shias, who are all fake and Zionists. Green shawls is what the followers of Dajjal wear as the prophet said in a prophecy. But it is often the darkness and the moon and silver associated with Islam since it is controlled by Kabbalists and Satanists. That is why the symbol of Islam is a moon as in the Kabbalah it is associated with "evil" angel Gabriel while the Sun is behind fake Jesus in church paintings, and also that is why the fake scholars say it is forbidden to wear gold but ok to wear silver and everything beautiful and joyful is "harram" or forbidden like art such as music, paintings, statues, etc, even tho in Eslaum we know people around the prophet had toys with animal faces, in the Goraun prophet Esa made bird shapes out of clay, prophet Suleiman build statues....so it is the crypto-Jews fake Mosslems who invented this for Islam because in their religion they hate Jesus and Suleiman or Solomon who they say became a disbeliever.
Colors of real Eslaum is the rainbow which the Zionists today associate with children because in the heart children feel the goodness of rainbow and then instead to say Eslaum originally is the nation of rainbow they associated the rainbow with homosexuality and other sexual perversions and created Islam of darkness and frustration.
This is why Saudis and Ayatolahs wear Jewish dresses and have black uniforms, especially Ayatollahs, because it says in the Talmud that if a Jew wants to spread evil he must move to a place where people dont know him well and wear black with a black hat, as did Khomeini who flew in from France, and thats why the women in Saudi wear black Jewish hijabs to associate it with darkness and depression and grief and frustration, because the Saudi Kingdom and gov of Iran are Yahudis or Kabbalist Jews. Thats why you have beliefs and laws and accusations on the media that Islam teaches killing apostates, rape, targeting civilians, no painting of creatures, circumcision for male babies and kids( often the media complains only about female genital mutilation because in Judaism mutilation is only for males as in the Kabbalah God is female...also that is why in the west a woman gets everything after the divorce, man has to give house, children, money, car, give more money etc because of Kabbalah), God ordering Abraham to slaughter his son....because it is Judaism and the media associates to Mosslems what the Jews believe and actually target those of Mosslems who oppose Jewish infiltration and call them "terrorists" while Saudi, Iran, Erdogan, etc are all allies of the Zionists and are Zionists themselves but are shown on TV as the moderates or good allies or the only real Islam state fighting Zionists whle in reality when USA invaded Irak, Iran helped USA to invade, and after they massacred the people USA gave entire Irak to the Iran, even one of their actors, Trump, admitted it during the TV show debates for fake elections show, only he said it was a "mistake" lol.
Bro who told hou this ? He wore a Black large cloth which he wrapped around himself.
Also green in most Arab flags isn’t used as a symbol of Islam
You believe you will find the truth by googling and watching TV?
Interesting, thanks for this video. I’d love to see a video specifically about Albania’s transition to Islam.
Secular'Muslims'
Albania is 45% muslim ( last albanian census 2023)
*According to 2024 census, Bosnia is no longer majority muslim at 49%*
there is no 2024 census
Fake there islam is growing and 52% muslims now
@@Imposter321the 2023 census of Albania was false aswell
nice im bosnian and im muslim
Elhamdulilah
Me to.
Nice!
Bosnian Atheist here xD
do you guys practice Islam , I heard that the Bosnians are the most practicing Muslims in the Balkans
Thanks for another great video! Not sure if I missed it, but I didn't hear about Cyprus or Azerbaijan.
Are they European country?
@@Tap_Zone Cyprus is but us europeans usually forget they exist. Plus they don't have a native population but rather are made up of greeks and turks and they follow each respective religion so not much of a discussion to be had about religon there.
Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Romanians, non ethnic Turks Bulgarians, Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Montenegrins, non ethnic Albanians Macedonians, Greeks, Italians, Maltese are strongly opposed to Islamist culture, Swiss, Austrians, Portuguese, and Spanish Spaniards have actually contradictory views, they are almost in the middle, while British, Dutch, Belgians, French, Germans, Albanians, Bosniaks, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes view Islamist culture positively.
those aren't European countries
@@mariobricalli They are. The border is the Caucus mountains and the Ural mountains., Azerbaijan is to the west of the Urals and the north of the Caucus.
Cyprus is member of the European Union and part of Europe in every other organisation and/or all political/cultural groupings.
There’s Lipka Tatars too! 😊
yeah he forgot about em
Crimean and Lipka Tatars are awesome
Im European Tatar (not Lipka, but like to go discovering Lipka spots in Lithuania and Poland) :) Salam, and thanks for remembering us!
This was so interesting and greatly enlightening! Thanks
7:21 when GK remembers he is Portuguese:
I never realized how long and for how much of the past that Montenegro was independent! When I was born/a child, it was a relatively unknown part of Yugoslavia. It seems way more like that was always meant to revert back to an independent state now.
Definitely, I feel the same way. I grew up learning it was just a small piece of land that decided to break away from Serbia in the midst of the mess that was the collapse of Yugoslavia. As you look into it you understand how much of a historical background they have.
Westeners dont really know our story. Even when whole balcan peninsula was under otoman rule Montenegro wasnt. Our people lived hard life high in the mountains 1000m+ above sea level to avoid ottomans and preserve christianity and freedom. Even if Ottomans came they had hard time fighting us on our land. They lost many battles with unexpectedly high loses because our country is very rocky, mountainous with deep canyons and few valleys therefore very impractical for conqering. Ottomans managed tu burn down our capital Cetinje but thats about it, even when Montenegro was de facto part of the Ottoman empire we were free of tax 'harač' and never gave our children to become janichars. Montenegro was beacon of freedome and hope for liberation and unification of all serbs or southern slavs; Montenegro gave Serbia Karadjordje and whole royal dynasty Karadjordjevic is of montenegrin origin, father of Nemanjic dinasty Stefan Nemanja is born in Montenegro, Novak Djokovic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, even Slobodan Milosevic, all from Montenegrin fathers. The thing is montenegrins and serbs are indeed one people but we montenegrins are a bit tougher 💪😅
break up of yugoslavia doesnt make the countries any better.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922Depends, some benefited from it in some ways and lost something in others.
@@stefanmandic4438 samo vam nije trebao ulazak u nato i priznanje kosova.I ako volim CG i tu sam mesec dana godisnje to mi nekako bas ne lici na vas
If include Georgia as european then Turkey too
Georgia is Orthodox, Turkey is Islamic. Only Western Turkey, the coastal regions and of course Eastern Thrace can be considered European in culture and or geography. The Anatolian heartlands are different, and not European.
The Kurds also not.
@@Adam-z6n1qGeorgia is orthodox so what?
@@Adam-z6n1q😂bruh, in that case Kosova is not European either since overwhelmingly Islamic
@@Adam-z6n1qturkey is nor islamic just muslim majority
Subscribed. Well done, read my mind I was just thinking about Bosnia today
Hi! Thank you for the video. I know you are welcoming the suggestions regarding pronunciation. As for Russian region of Dagestan. G in “Dagestan” is a hard g like in “Great Britain”.
Thank you again for your work!
Romania, the most Christian country in Europe, couldn't be more proud of it, neomarxism failed here.
What the hell is "neomarxism" mate?
@@jonbest5205the woke bs
@@lucianboar3489 what is "woke"?
@@jonbest5205 @jonbest5205 approving of the ESG agenda - so trying to "save the planet" through lower CO2 emissions, vegetarianism or veganism, thinking that white people need to atone for something they did wrong while others get a pass and that it's wrong to make fun of all the lgbtq+ letters and symbols. And that men are bad and need to be tamed.
A right-wing dictatorship is exactly what Romania needs to become completely ruined. Soon Romanians will flock to even Bulgaria and the non-EU Balkan states.
10:14 Worth mentioning that this isn’t quite because of Central Serbia gaining independence later than Greece, rather because the region of Sandžak was a part of Bosnia for a long time. Parts of Sandžak, especially Novi Pazar, are majority Bosniak (just like Bosnia itself) and is Muslim.
hey great video but i know a reason why Montenegro has a high Muslim population, it is because of the Bosnian war of independence against Yugoslavia where a lot of people found refuge in Montenegro but never returned as Montenegro has better stranded of live and wage and more but great work on the video keep it up man.
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Thats just plain wrong. Muslim population in Serbian and Montenegrin Sandžak, both Slavic and Albanian, survived because they were able to frustrate every attempt to expel them.
As a Dutch, I don't care what others people believes are. I can live with anyone as long as we respect each other and don't tell what to do or how to live, than hell breaks loose
It works with European Muslims because they're European like the rest so culturally there aren't that many differences. I met some Lebanese Christians that resembled more their Muslims neighbours than European Christians, because while the religion might be the same, the approach towards it is quite different
Thank you for this lecture' Never gave it a thought , the green color so prominent in flags
Green is a prominent color for islam and known as our prophet’s favorite color
The video does not go into Bulgaria that much but beside the earlier ethnic cleansings conducted by Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria during their independence movements around the Balkan Wars period, Bulgaria also had a very active forced assimilation and expulsion policy during the Communist regime that was in place all the way until 1990s. Turks were forced to pick up Slavic names, convert to Orthodoxy, or were kicked out of citizenship and expelled. From 1950 to 1990, about 1 million Turks as well as other Muslims escaped to Turkey from Bulgaria.
You did something, while we let them run our country to the ground.
Yes, but Turks conguered their countries in the first place. So, there was ethnic cleansing but it has to be viewed from vides perspective.
These number rates are not because of Ottomans but anti-Islamic propaganda.
In fact, Ottomans didn't force or intimidate any of their non-muslim subjects to embrace Islam because, in Islam, the faith doesn't go into hearts by force. But they encouraged them tried the locals to warm towards Islam. Some of them embraced and some didn't. It is a long process. The numbers would have been substentially larger if it hadn't happen the anti-Islamic propaganda and muslim deportation in the Post-Ottoman period.
Janissaries were stolen christian children turned into muslim faith and tought to kill their parents. Muslims had no taxes to pay . Christians payed in blood , in goods, for preserving their faith. Christians started eating pork only because the muslims would steal all their food.
Liar. Facts are facts.
just a headsup, the S in muslim and Islam is pronounced as an S not a Z, idk how the westerners started pronouncing them Izlam and Muzlim in the first place lmao great video as usual
They find it hard to say the S i guess. Different langueges favor some sounds over the other sounds. Same goes for regional dielects
@Donerci_Pikacu_Usta I would agree if we were talking about some odd sounded letter or something, but this is an easy word, you don't hear them calling Iceland Izland
It sounds almost the same 💀
It’s probably for the same reason native English speakers generally pronounce ‘is,’ ‘as,’ and ‘was’ as if they were spelt with ‘z’
but its not.. people dont go saying things like izeland rather than iceland@@JmKrokY
In Bosnia we have our own brand of Islam. Islam that was made adaptible to European continent and our culture. So, basically. It doesn't matter how many Bosniaks are practicing or not, we are aware where we live and who we are, and that is Europeans.
Bosanski Muslimani kulturno i civilizacijski ne pripadaju evropi!Pa vjekovima ste ratovali za turske interese i Islam protiv njih!
@@prcbukvu2293you achieved the exact opposite .You said a lot more about yourself than about anyone else .So much about your culture. and civilisation.
Love Bosnians. Great folks to drink together. Yet the following day many may still go to a mosque for their prayer. Totally secular with beliefs considered a cultural thingy.
the duality of a Bosnian muslim
Most Albanians are only Muslim on paper, they don’t really practice their faith. I think Bosnians are more religious but they have similar circumstances
Albanians Don't Look like europeans bosnians does
Bosnian Muslims are modarete but somewhat religious
very smart i hope the other Muslim countries will become like that
Bosniaks are Turks wanabe that's why. Rare exemple of country nostalgic their colonisator had to leave. Stockholm syndrom level infinity.
@@hasinabegum1038how do Albanians not lool European? Are you dumb?
Asian countries everyone forgets are Christian.
Nobody forgets The Philippines
@@hasinabegum1038 Too true.
People forget East Timor
Because of colonization, luckily they are starting to waking up
Good idea! Or at least Asian countries with big Christian communities
I would add also that between Hungary and Greece there has pretty much always been a “power vacuum” even during Roman times. Those provinces weren’t huge population centers, had a small economy and didn’t contribute much to the empire. The situation may have persisted, to be very honest, until fairly recently. A perfect scenario for a strong empire to influence their culture, which the ottomans clearly did.
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden that which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. Quran 9:29
[Surah At-Tawbah: 13]
Fadel Soliman:
Will you not combat a people who have reneged on their oaths and have advanced forward to evict the Messenger, and it was they who initiated(hostilities) against you? Do you fear them? It is Allah who is worthier of being feared, if you are believers.
@@abdibgm5748 your god doesn’t exist
Mais um excelente vídeo. Sigas assim.
Great video
Hi from Kosovo! Good video btw!
It was Ottoman Empire the reason of the religion change!
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Love kosovo and Albania from tunisia 🇹🇳❤️🇽🇰🇦🇱
So you think Albanian people in history had neither free will nor agency? Ottoman Empire ruled for centuries being a multi religious state.
Kosovo is Serbia 🇷🇸 ☦️
@@dream_four4 🇽🇰🤝🏻🇹🇳
Bosnia-Herzegovina is around 60% Muslim now, already in 2013 it wasn't only 50% Muslim or so.
serbs and croats doing speedrun to elave Bosnia cuz they got tired of mosques💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻2024.
@@Likenobodybro What are you talking about?
@HarisP000 For it to be closer to 55%, Croats would have to make up around 15% population yet they are more likely at 8-9% now because they have fell under 300 000 people. Serbs are at around 28-29%.
Is it possible that no one could have at least mentioned that all these territories were taken from Serbia?!?! 1912 Britain did not allow the Serbs to liberate Albania from Turkey, but gave that temperature to the Albanians. Likewise, in 1995, it gave half of Bosnia to the Muslims from Yugoslavia, even though serbs were the majority in Bosnia. And Kosovo was taken from Serbia in 1999 by bombing.
COPE HARDER SERBOID, you will never form Big Serbia again
Serbs were not majority, stfu
Serbs were the majority in the 90s in Bosnia 😂? What a great joke... Then explain why were my people including myself ethnically cleansed in the Podrinje region of Bosnia (in the eastern region if you don't know where I'm talking about)?
Como sempre um bom trabalho! Obrigado
You make great videos. Congrats.
5:08 Serbia actually has a high number it's more like 25 percentage because Serbia consider Kosovo as part of it
You forgot to add France, UK, Germany and Sweden
Tjena sköldpaddan :)
Haha
*Frafrica, Gerministan and Swedistan 🔥❤️
@@bababababababa6124What is Germanistan?
Not even 9% Muslim in those countries
The tumbnail is gonna summon the serbian nationalists.💀☠
They do a Putin, go back a thousand years to explain how Kosovo was granted to them by God.
Too late…
@@joshuacampbell1625well it belong to those that fought against turks and nazis not those who aided them.
@@temistogen "those who aided them" LMAO. Someone's forgotten the molotov-ribbentrop pact.
@@temistogen don't engage them dum will be dum no matter the facts
Remember that the non-believer numbers doesn't mean that the rest are believers.
In Norway 50% say they don't believe in a god.
- But only 30% say they _do_ believe in a god. (20% Christians, 4% muslims, 6% other religion or belief in a god without any religion)
- The remaining 20% are people who answered "unsure" "i believe sometimes" and "i think there is something greater than us, but it is not a god"
Iskam was not imposed by conquering the country and there would not be a large number of Christians. Islam does not have the practice of imposing religion or inquisition, nor did Muslims commit mass extermination of people of other faiths.
As a Bosnian, I have every right to say that.
Can you please do a video on what if Scotland became an independent country ????
Even the Scottish Government can’t make a video about that!
I hope they do eventually. I’m very south England and do no share anything in common
I did one a good amount of time ago about if the UK broke up, in general. But sure, I can do one focused on Scotland!
@@DeKeverslanguage, currency, monarch, government, sports, fashion, food, history, You have got a lot in common just sounds like you’ve forgotten about them
I really want Scotland to be independent, I hope this dream comes true 😊
Population on kosovo during the ottoman empire were Orthodox, not Muslim. The majority of muslims came there in the last 50-60 years
Not really... they were catholic at least albanians
@@fasggasgasdf Albanians were in Albania and Serbs were on kosovo. That is a part of Serbia, Kosovo and Metohija. Many Serbian monasteries are there, built by Serbian kings.
When Tito become the president of Yugoslavia, then Albanians from Albania slowly populate that area since he gave them a big autonomy. And today you have that self declaimed country called Kosovo, which they stolen from Serbian people there.
@@Titeljantito didn’t let Albanians go to kosovo wtf are u talking about. Albania was a strict comunist country for over 40 years until 1991 no albanians were able to leave or enter albania at all. Serbs in kosovo were a minority since at least the 14th century
@@fasggasgasdfWrong! There were many Orthodox churches in Kosovo before Ottoman period.
Weren’t they Catholic?
We are all interconnected one way or another
Green was popular cause they don't have much green with all that sand. Just like purple was popular in England, it was rare to see.
I'm a Muslim, I was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I love my own, I respect other people's, I love everything that was born in my Bosnia and Herzegovina, it doesn't matter religion or race, my Bosnia and Herzegovina is the most beautiful in the whole world, and my Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox, Jews, Roma, we are all of flesh and blood, the same love your own, respects others
Imagine praying to a black cube of saturn and cope around that fact.
@@apoorhorseabusedbycenkthere’s no hate like christian love. ❤
I asked our translator if many Kosovars attend the mosques. She said it was mostly old people. She was pretty young so I didn’t ask what age she considered old.
yeah muslims rarely go to mosque. i mostly pray in my own house.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 at least you pray , in Albania or some regions of north Africa , they don't pray anymore
@@aybn5589Why would they pray ? most of them are non believers
@@Pikugo I'm talking about the Muslims among them
Houari Boumedienne said something like, we will conquer the northern hemisphere, not with force but through our children. The wombs of our women will give us victory. He pointed out western people on average get fewer children still and Muslims still breed vigorously.
you are lying he never say that
I feel like now a days ppl are quick to shame Spain and Portugal with the Reconquista (which they did do awful things) but it's a doble standard when Ottomons were expanding and conquering others nations and forcibly convert or expel christians, France may even be a muslim state were it not for the battle of tours.
God bless La Reconquista !!!! And God bless to all our brothers and sisters equally.
Malta is both very religious and very liberal. So interesting
Protestant Christian here from Northern California, America 🇺🇸 🇵🇹
*Video about Muslim Europe*
🇪🇺🇹🇷Türkiye & 🇦🇿Azerbaijan left the chat… 😅
(given they’re members of the Council of Europe, Eurovision, European Political Community, NATO, EU Candidate - & have no equivalent ‘Asian’ alliances)
They're still in Asia tho
@@TorreFLoeckx if georgia is somehow in europe surley turkiye is to
@@TorreFLoeckx Idk man anatolia is more like a muslim version of greece than asia 🤣
@@fasggasgasdf Asia minor
☪️ European majority muslim countries: 🇦🇱 🇧🇦 🇽🇰*
*partially recognized
☪️ "Eurasian" muslim majority countries: 🇦🇿 🇹🇷 🇰🇿*
*mostly described as Asian, but sometimes as Eurasian
✝️ ☦️ "Eurasian" christian majority countries: 🇬🇪 🇦🇲 🇷🇺
Ps: Eurasian used as term for transcontinental countries located in the borders of Europe and Asia, or a country that has parts in both continents (Turkey and Russia).
Most Turkish citizens are more European genetically than turk
It's because they have mixed with their neighbors
Nope most Turkish citizens descend from Anatolian Neolithic farmers and Medieval Turkomans
@@nenenindonuAnatolians were greek and thus culturally european for more than a millenium
@@igorlopes7589Anatolians were not Greek but they were close to Greeks in terms of genetics and culture, later on Anatolians are Hellenized, so they become Greco Anatolian
@@e.v3832 Average Greek vs Turk debate.
Maybe video about most Christian European countries? (not like I am polish patriot who want his country to be in video)
That's like all of em except the one mentioned here
And where are the Christian countries in the middle East..?
Armenia being an island in Muslim world 🥲 (+Georgia but however)
Be happy, they spread like desese....
Alhamdulilah for Islam ❤
What alhamdulilah? Islam is a colonial religion, and and oppressive one
we europeans shit on mohamed and islam
Albania is not Muslim. Albania is Atheist, Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox, Bektashi and a ton of other religions that have joined recently..
Lol how exactly have they joined? Did the entire country hold a council and everyone held hands in unison?
Bosnia was mainly Christian for most of its history. Before the Ottoman Turkish invasion of Bosnia in 1463 AD there were no muslims or Serbs living in Bosnia. In fact the muslim population started to increase in Sarajevo region only after the "Great Raid" into Bosnia by Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1697 AD. When Prince Eugene of Savoy left Bosnia about 40,000 Roman Catholics left the Sarajevo region and went back with him to Croatia (Slavonia).
Another reason for the low percentage of Protestants in Europe is lack of interest in church. There are people who believe in some greater power, but are not interested in attending, joining, donating to an organization aka church. For further depth on Islam in Bosnia, I would recommend finding Rare Earth videos from Feb 2020 where Evan Hadfield visits and talks about the religious history there
The Albanian statistic is an outlier here because the Albanian society is highly irreligious, more so than most European countries. Albania has never had an institutional religious minded society and statistics are mere heritage based numbers where people generally select one choice over the other on the census based on their grandparents knowledge. Portraying Albania as a "Muslim" country is so wrong in many aspects. It doesn't have much of religious heritage apart from a few mosques here and there (that are empty 99% of the time btw). Its culture, ideals and emancipation is not inline with Islamic principles or the "Muslim world" at all. Less than 2.5% are considered as practicing a religion and more often it is the Christian areas who are more conservative. They certainly have their own culture and identity and don't use religion as a means for these two like some Bosnians do for example of Muslim countries in ME. No religious history, heritage or ideals. Highly irreligious society and very European oriented. Their flag, their biggest heroes and venerated renaissance leaders are more "Christian" minded (secular really) than anything Islamic. Knowing Albania well, one would make a fundamental mistake of calling it "Muslim".
Albania's Prime Minister and many of its Presidents have always stated "Albania is not a Muslim country but a place where there are Muslims, Christians and other denominations that live in total harmony of a people bound by ethnicity and language (not religion). Religion is a private and personal matter for Albanians."
Kosovo, being a little brother to Albania have always idealised Albania is this regard and them being a fairly new entity, you would expect them to continue in this direction.
I second that! 👐
I would not agree on Kosovo because they didn't live during Yugoslavia under strong regime comparing toAlbania under Enver so I would disagree with those expetations. I worked with both, Kosovaris and Albanians and I see that on Kosovo religion plays a big role.
Bosnia and Albania are officially secular countries. Also, a large number of people, although they declare themselves as Muslims since they were under communism for a long time, do not practice it like other Muslims, they are culturally different, they eat pork, drink alcohol, do not wear hijab, speak different languages (except for a smaller part who are hardcore religious).
Drinking yes, premarital sex yes- but pork is mostly a no no. But all in all, yep, pretty on point.
Bosnians are somewhat religious
Bosnians are far more religious than you think, and eating pork is big no no, even if your a bordeline atheist muslim.
@@ScuffedLifeThats true for Bosnia but Albanians eat pork a lot. Pork is not a taboo there as it is in Bosnia.
In Iberia they were native Iberians , Arabian peninsula isn't that big or green to house a population that could replace people so far away
Theirs three are native Europeans who converted to islam with Turkish pushing. They’re not Arabs or any of that and apart from the Yugoslav war they’re all pretty chill. The Albanian deal is ethnic rivalry not religious.
As someone from Herzegovina, it is BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.
From a Bulgarian point of view this was rather well done. It was a Reconquista, just done a bit later.
reconquista made by spaniards who lives in iberia. you are independent because of ambitions of russia which is a foreign power. its definitely not the same thing.
Low percentage of the muslims in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece is a result of pogroms that was done in those countries after they got independence muslims were either forced to move to Turkey or to convert into Christianity or killed.
Completely false in the case of Serbia, Muslims are a majority happily living in the former Sandzak region of Serbia.
Lol..The only guys who committed genocide were the Ottoman Colonisers. And these Turkish Colonisers haven't even apologised for the Genocide committed against 2 million Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Christians in 1915 by Ottoman Caliphate.
@@alangervasisSerbians also committed genocide
@@Saulgud23lol
@@hasinabegum1038 you're comparing the death of a thousand people to the deaths of a million people...
Dagestan isn't Tatar though. And Chechnya isn't Turkic at all. Also would've been nice had you included Kazakhstan. Yes only a tiny bit of it is in Europe but that tiny bit is big enough to fit 10 European countries
8:00 thats very interesting because theres still muslim populations around the 2 areas that are highlighted in romania
Bosnian muslims in most cases arent that muslim. They drink and they are pretty chill and open minden unlike the ones from arab and middle eastern countries. I just wanted to point it out cause i think western people might not know the difference
Bosnians are somewhat religious.Albanians are extremely secular
@@hasinabegum1038 Albanians biggest religion is stealing from people.
Interesting Cope.
I need to make an intervention here. Albania is not a "Muslim country". During the communist regime it was in fact declared as an Atheist country (the first in the world) and remained so for a a while. Religion was not permitted at all and all the religious institutions were used as schools, gyms, event venues etc. So, in reality the numbers of people that practice any kind of religion are quite low (likely less than 10% in total).
Before the Ottoman conquest, the most common religion for Albanians used to be Eastern Orthodox, as they were part of the Byzantine Empire (many of them on the north-western regions were Roman Catholic, because of the proximity with the Venetians.
After being conquered by the ottomans, many Albanians, especially those in the east and north-east had to convert for various reasons (less taxes, fear, job opportunities, education, other forms of pressure, etc)...but it was always common knowledge that whatever their religion was, it was only at surface level, and that their true religion would always be their ethnicity...in order for these peoples to survive the centuries' long occupation.
All these religions co-exist happily and their institutions are quite often situated very close to one another in the Albanian territories. You'll frequently find a church and a mosque facing each-other only a few metres away. Nowadays, marriages between families of different religious backgrounds/heritage are also completely normal and accepted by all.
Sweden doesn't have 5-10% Muslims. They make up about 2.5% of the Swedish population and Sweden should hence be in the 1-4% category.
I never think or thought about catholism when I think about religion in europe, mainly because my country is a bit mixed.
Bosnia and Hercegovina: serbs were the major ethnical group at all censuses until 1879 to 1961. Muslims are major ethnical group since census in 1971 till now. In 1991 there were 43% muslims and 48% christians (31% serbs and 17% croats). In 1991 serbs were owner of more than 51% of all BiH land. Western countries forced Bosnia and Hercegovina to be muslim country inspite less than 50% muslims. That resulted with bloody war.
European countries everyone forgets*
Much of the Balkans and parts of Central and Easter Europe basically.
Fun fact, Northern Macedonia is likely to become Muslim Majority by 2050, since already a majority of its youth are Muslim. Making it the soon to be 4th European Muslim country.
God forbid
@@aurumofcyberelius they're indigenous people to the land...why god forbid?
@@maisa5943 They're not really. It's our land and we don't want them here. Most of them are illegals from Kosovo from when NATO bombed it
@@maisa5943 Because most of them are illegals and all the hey do is cause scandals and crime. They don't care about this country and just want more autonomy and rights like they did in Kosovo
@@maisa5943 Okay, listen i'm not typing a 3rd reply again because RUclips for some reason removes them. They cause most crime and scandals and they claim this land and want autonomy
Video suggestion: What if India broke up?
already did. it became pakistan and bangladesh.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 I don't think they were a part of "India". Just the British Raj.
@@ShaytanDharm its basically the same thing. urdu (pakistan's lingua franca) is basically the same language as with hindi (lingua franca of india).
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Except that Urdu has Persian elements in it unlike Hindi which has Sanskrit elements in it
Guys chill, I am talking about Indian states💀
Albania is a secular country your religion is part of your personal life
Wrong, the very title “muslim” country is wrong, I say it for Bosnia Hercegovina. We are multi-ethnic very mixed country. There are Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats, Romas, and different many minority. Also to call a country a muslim country you should have sharia law, which is not established here.
You say that Protestantism leads counties to become less religious, then immediately use Czechia, a formerly majority Catholic country, as an example of this.
Very good point, my mistake!
its worth mentioning the hussite religion, the proto-protestant denomination of christianity which started in Czechia. Its followers were the first protestant christians before Martin Luthers speech in 1517
It still holds as a generalization, compare Anglo-America with Latin-America, on average people on the latter are more religious.
As a muslim in europe I find this interesting
immigrant or native?
Great! Thanks for watching :)
@@nedasani3505 look at the pfp
Muslim in Balkan is the best muslim, they more tolerate, natives most importantly doesn't bring their ideology to other country like what happened in Sweden
What happened in Sweden?
What about turkic Muslims like azerbaijanis,Kazakhs,Uzbeks
@@hasinabegum1038Azeris are pretty chill from my exp. Don't know about the others.
True, they are most liberal muslims in the world.
@@hasinabegum1038Based on my personal experience with Turks, they seem to be pretty chill when it comes to religion.