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The term Muslim Europe is used for the predominantly Muslim countries of Europe, including Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kazakhstan; it is also used for the Muslim community in Europe. Islam has had a historical stronghold in the Balkans since the The Global Religious Landscape: Muslims
The term Muslim Europe is used for the predominantly Muslim countries of Europe, including Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kazakhstan; it is also used for the Muslim community in Europe. Islam has had a historical stronghold in the Balkans since the Ottoman wars in Europe
A series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and various European states took place from the Late Middle Ages up through the early 20th century. The earliest conflicts began during the Byzantine–Ottoman wars, waged in Anatolia in ...
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* Islam in Kosovo, 95.6% (2011 census)
* Islam in Albania, 58.79% (2011 census)
* Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 50.7% (2013 census)
The number of Muslims in European countries is estimated at 44 million, or 5% of the total population.Pew Research Center
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See also
*European Islam
European Islam is a hypothesized new branch of Islam that historically originated and developed among the indigenous White European peoples of the Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo) and some republics of Russia, which constitu ...
*List of cities in the European Union by Muslim population
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Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in Europe, primarily due to immigration and higher fertility rates among Muslims. Since the 1960s, immigrants from Muslim countries started to appear in numbers in Western Europe, especially ...
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* * *{{cite book, author1=Nezar AlSayyad, author2=Manuel Castells, title=Muslim Europe Or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y6AsbTBUy7cC&pg=PA33, year=2002, publisher=Lexington Books, isbn=978-0-7391-0339-5, pages=33– Islam in Europe