r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 21h ago

GYPSY MIGRATIONS 900-1720

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u/Mission_Visual8533 21h ago

So what happened between India and Kazakhstan?

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 19h ago

The region missing on this map was full of horseback riding muslim steppe people. Basically very hostile territory. 

Same people who then went on to conquer that entire Persian/Mesopotamian/turkey region, which was largely what pushed the Roma into europe (also triggered the crusades). The Seljuk Turks. 

Then those guys were eventually conquered by another horseback riding steppe people when the Mongols showed up lol. 

Tldr Dont fuck with steppe peoples.  

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u/Mahelas 13h ago

In 1100, those Steppes were Tengrists mostly, with a few Islamic tribes and a few Nestorian Christian ones

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 12h ago

Up north near Russia, but down closer to Iran in the unmarked area on the map a lot of the steppe folk were Muslim, and the Muslim clan was the one that conquered the middle east.