>>508565449You all people tend to forget that the Greeks lived all around the Mediterranean for 3000+ years before all this Islam shit started and when Ottomans came they literally extracted children from societies.
As borders of the Ottoman Empire expanded, the devşirme system of child levy enslavement was extended to include Armenians, Bulgarians, Croats, Hungarians, Serbs, Romanians, and later Bosniaks,[9][37][38][39][40][41] and, in rare instances, Georgians, Circassians, Ukrainians, Poles, and southern Russians.
By 1609 you had the Janisaeries as a standing army of 37,627 men. These men would need to be rotated every 10 years. That means in a 100 years the Ottomans extracted 370k white people from the Balkans. By 1826 it was 135,000 strong force.
If you ask ChatGPT it gives you:
3,000 to 12,000 boys were taken per levy, which typically occurred every 3 to 7 years in different regions.
The system lasted for roughly 300 years.
200,000–300,000 Balkan children may have been taken as Janissaries during the full span of the Devşirme system.
Not that in relationship to the population. You had like 20-30 mil Ottomans Empire Population.
Istambul was like 200k~1mil over it's history.
So thats why you get really white people.
Israel is like 60% Slavic.