Yo. I was wondering when someone would notice I haven't been updating in a good while.
I'm sure Sov's just taking a break. Thanks for bumping though, I missed the map
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Yep, I essentially on vacation visiting family so haven't had too much time to sit down and write.
Interesting map. How big is the Turkish minority inside of Rome? Is it significant near former Aydin and inland, or is it practically non-existent due to an influx of Greeks and the assimilation of any Turks? I'd imagine there's still a small group of rich Turks who were formerly nobles whatever the answer, but considering they were already getting hellenized they might not even identify that way much longer.
Inside? At best 2-4 hundred thousand. This is including those that have been Hellenized to varying degrees but still identify as Turkish. Western Anatolia was still overwhelmingly Greek well into the Ottoman period (heck even in the Ottoman Census of 1914 Anatolia was around ~15% Greek, the vast majority clustered around the coasts). Here of course, that's still going to be the same.
Can't give an exact number because population numbers were in a huge state of flux throughout the Eastern Med following the Black Death and its difficult to get exact estimates. Ive heard Anatolia would at this time have around 5 million people (high estimate) and 2 million (low estimate). The % of people who would identify as Turkish is... debatable. Most of the ruling elites certainly would have.
Now, most of Rome's Turkish minority would be clustered closer to the Central Anatolian Region but there's a couple of exceptions- and that is Smyrna and the surrounding suburbs (Aydinid seat of power) and the area around Bursa. Lots of nomads were brought by Osman and they'd be a pain in the ass to just expel. Instead it'd be cheaper to just swarm them with settlers and hope to assimilate them but that takes time.
Regarding those nobles and other Hellenized ones, you're half right. One the one hand the influence of Rome would see to it that they wouldn't identify too much with their nomadic cousins out in Eastern Anatolia or the more traditional ones in Central Anatolia. But I doubt they'd call themselves Greek- they'd likely still be Muslim, speak Turkish and have a worldview partially influenced from the Arabo-Turkish tradition that they begin to blend in with Urban Greek culture. With these you have very potent markers of ethnographic description to set themselves apart from the Greeks and both the Central Anatolian Turks.