Islam in Europe by percentage of country population[1]
90–100%
Azerbaijan
Kosovo
Turkey
70–90%
Albania
Kazakhstan
50–70%
Bosnia and Herzegovina
30–40%
North Macedonia
10–20%
Bulgaria
France
Georgia
Montenegro
Russia
5–10%
Austria
Sweden
Belgium
Germany
Greece
Liechtenstein
Netherlands
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Norway
Denmark
4–5%
Italy
Serbia
2–4%
Luxembourg
Malta
Slovenia
Spain
1–2%
Croatia
Ireland
Ukraine
< 1%
Andorra
Armenia
Belarus
Czech Republic
Estonia
Finland
Hungary
Iceland
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Monaco
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Slovakia
Islam began to make inroads into the Armenian Plateau during the seventh century. Arab, and later Kurdish, tribes began to settle in Armenia following the first Arab invasions and played a considerable role in the political and social history of Armenia.[2] With the Seljuk invasions of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Turkic element eventually superseded that of the Arab and Kurdish. With the establishment of the Iranian Safavid dynasty, Afsharid dynasty, Zand Dynasty and Qajar dynasty, Armenia became an integral part of the Shia world, while still maintaining a relatively independent Christian identity. The pressures brought upon the imposition of foreign rule by a succession of Muslim states forced many lead Armenians in Anatolia and what is today Armenia to convert to Islam and assimilate into the Muslim community. Many Armenians were also forced to convert to Islam, on the penalty of death, during the years of the Armenian Genocide.[3]
^"Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2050". Pew Research Center. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^Ter-Ghewondyan, Aram (1976). The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia. Trans. Nina G. Garsoïan. Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
^Vryonis, Speros (1971). The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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