Evilprodigy
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Wikipedia:Evilprodigy: Do you mind telling me where you got the pop figures for Ottoman Egypt and Sicily in 1600? I could always use that kind of data.
I’m on record at multiple points that Egypt is still only around 3 million people. The Time of Troubles and the Great Uprising really did a number on the place, plus only the Copts and Nile Germans are of sufficient size and loyalty to provide lots of troops.
Sicily is in the same way; I’m on record at multiple points that they’re around 3 million as well. Although here I don’t have a good reason for the lower figure. Time of Troubles hurt a lot, but aside from bad corsair raids in the past few decades they haven’t had major issues. Pogroms would’ve hurt some. I’m probably forced to handwave some bad epidemics and leave it at that. Not a good solution admittedly but the best I can come up with.
Anizzah are still an important eastern ally. Ethiopia too can help with the Ottomans, both through harassing them in the Gulf and potentially sending troops to the Levant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_in_1600
The source they give for the Ottoman Empire is Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Years 1–2012 by Alexander V. Avakov which itself cites a source called Maddison which seems to be Angus Maddison's, The World Economy Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=-U...onepage&q=population of ethiopia 1600&f=false
The one for Sicily/Naples they cite this website:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/italian-history/kingdom-naples
It doesn't have citations but it does have a list of sources, and if I was a betting man I'd say the source with the population number is Antonio Calabria's The Cost of Empire. The Finances of the Kingdom of Naples in the Time of Spanish Rule.