• @someguy3OP
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    411 months ago

    Anyone know what happened in Ottoman Empire to lose that many people?

    • @Not_mikey
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      1011 months ago

      Looking at the wikipedia it seems they didn’t suffer many military casualties but suffered a lot from civilian deaths by military action at 1.5 million, probably mostly the Armenian genocide which estimates put at about 1 million. Also another 1 million from increase in civilian deaths which is harder to determine, maybe the empire was reliant on food imports pre-war that went away once the allies took control of the Mediterranean and blockaded them.