[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I don't know the history of this area, but why are the Albanians now predominantly Muslim? Did they lose the war against the Muslim Turks?

[Pyro7480]

I met an Albanian Catholic who is now a graduate student in the U.S. There are hardly any Catholics left in the country, because of the vile persecutions of the Communists in Albania, who declared the country "the first atheistic state" in the second half of the 20th century.

[Destro]

It is a shame you don't. It is one of the most important episodes in Christian European history.

[FormerLib]

If you know the history of Islam, you'll know that there were tremendous benefits for conquered people within the Ottoman Empire to convert to Islam. Christians were considered second-class citizens and had a lower legal status than those of their Mohammedan neighbors.

Balkan Muslims are the descendents of collaborators and traitors. They outnumber Christians in their areas because they thrived under the Ottomans while the Christians suffered.