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Region in Eurasia bordered on the south by Iran, on the southwest by Turkey, on the west by the Black Sea, on the east by the Caspian Sea, and on the north by Russia
Most reputable recent estimates place Europe's Muslim population near 45–46 million in 2025, roughly 6% of the continent, up from about 19.5–24.9 million (3.8–5%) around 2000–2010 depending on definit...
Paris (and its wider metropolitan area) is repeatedly named in available reporting as the single European city-area with the largest Muslim population — Pew/INSEE-based summaries put Paris metro Musli...
The historical Khazar polity was a real medieval polity in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, but there is no credible scholarly evidence that a transhistorical, secret “Khazarian Mafia” ever existed; r...
The “Khazarian Mafia” conspiracy theory springs from a blend of medieval history, 19th‑ and 20th‑century antisemitic forgeries, and modern political mythmaking: the medieval conversion narrative about...
Mehmet Oz is a Turkish American born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Turkish immigrants Mustafa and Suna Öz, and his background combines ; he grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and trained in medicine an...
The available analyses disagree sharply: one widely circulated map and dataset estimates roughly of European descent worldwide, while several genetic- and demography-focused analyses report about as h...
Green eyes are an uncommon eye color caused by particular combinations of pigmentation and light-scattering, and while they are more frequent in some an populations, they are not a reliable indicator ...
is a long mosaic: deep hunter‑gatherer and Neolithic farmer ancestries were overlaid by influxes from the and later historical movements, producing substantial but incomplete continuity with present p...
Recent excavations and publications since 2010 have not produced a definitive archaeological “smoking gun” for a mass Jewish population across Khazaria, but they have sharpened debate by adding more a...
Scholars and analysts credit several Trump-era initiatives with strengthening aspects of U.S. leverage: pushing NATO allies toward a 5% of GDP defense-spending pledge at the June 2025 Hague summit, a ...
Multiple genome-wide studies and reviews find no substantive evidence that Ashkenazi Jews derive a major portion of their ancestry from Khazar or other North‑Caucasus populations; the largest integrat...
Available reporting does not name a single European city as definitively having the highest percentage of Muslim residents; instead, sources point to Muslim-majority countries and metropolitan areas w...
() in Jewish populations shows a mix of patterns: some communities — most notably and certain small, isolated groups — display strong dominated by a few maternal lineages, while most non‑Ashkenazi com...
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show substantial genetic continuity with and : genome-wide studies model large fractions of contemporary Levantine ancestry as deriving from Bronze‑Age “Canaanite”–like and Iron‑Age local groups, with...
Determining which single European city had the largest Muslim population in 2025 is not possible from the provided sources because none offer authoritative, city-level 2025 headcounts; however, two de...
The Soviet Union conducted a series of direct military operations, occupations and covert interventions across Eurasia and beyond during the 20th century, ranging from Red Army advances in the civil-w...
Europe’s continental land area is commonly reported at about 10 million square kilometres, with most mainstream sources giving figures between roughly 9.94 million km² and 10.19 million km² depending ...
Major genetic work on Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry falls into three broad classes—genome‑wide autosomal surveys, uniparental (mitochondrial and Y‑chromosome) analyses, and ancient DNA—from which a consis...