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Biggest Cities in the Great Seljuk Empire with a Map

With the help of a map, can you name the most populous cities of the Great Seljuk Empire in at its peak in 1090 AD under Malik-Shah I?
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Sources used for population estimates in the stickied comments.
Some of these cities do not exist anymore.
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Population
Cities
150k
Baghdad
100k
Isfahan
100k
Kerman
100k
Merv
100k
Nishapur
85k
Ray
70k
Bukhara
70k
Jerusalem
60k
Basra
60k
Qom
50k
Damascus
50k
Kashgar
50k
Kayseri
Population
Cities
50k
Kish
50k
Konya
50k
Mosul
50k
Shiraz
50k
Siraf
45k
Ankara
45k
Balasagun
45k
Sivas
40k
Diyarbakır
40k
Özgön
40k
Samarkand
40k
Shush
40k
Urfa
Population
Cities
35k
Aleppo
35k
Hama
30k
Acre
30k
Antakya
30k
Balkh
30k
Herat
30k
Hormuz
30k
Kufa
25k
Ardabil
25k
Erbil
25k
Gurganj
25k
Maragheh
Population
Cities
25k
Qazvin
25k
Raqqa
20k
Hamadan
20k
Hotan
20k
İznik
20k
Nusaybin
20k
Otrar
20k
Shushtar
20k
Tabriz
20k
Wasit
20k
Yarkand
20k
Zaranj
3 Comments
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Level 55
Sep 20, 2023
Sources:

4000 Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census: For a large portion of population estimates.

Early Medieval Central Asian Population Estimates: For Yarkand and Hotan.

Late ancient and medieval population: For Ankara.

Modernization Theory and House Garden Transformation; Erbil City as Case Study: For Erbil. Estimated area size of the second stage at 125 ha. Density of 200/ha used.

+2
Level 55
Sep 20, 2023
Population of the Larger Urban Areas: For Hamadan and Wasit. Estimates by Colin McEvedy for 737 AD. These should be taken with grain of salt as a lot of these are underestimates.

Vici.org: For Zaranj. Estimated area size at 100 ha. Density of 200/ha used.

Wikipedia - Susa: For Shush. Estimated area size at 400 ha. Pre-Islamic city in decline, density of 100/ha used.

The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia: For İznik (Nicaea). Housing area size at 100 ha. Density of 200/ha used.

+1
Level 61
Sep 26, 2023
you should bring back your language quizzes they're my favorite