Did many Balkan and European countries used to have a large Muslim populations before the fall of the Ottomans?

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Also if anyone could provide figures how many were there?

XeroEffekt

Technically, the Balkan countries are all European, so that’s the first thing. I think the answer would be two—Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina—Macedonia has a large minority as well consisting of different subgroups: Albanians, Macedonian converts to Islam, descendants of Turkic ottomans, and Roma people. So it’s a little complicated. Greece, Bulgaria and other places had large populations before the population transfers after wwi.