Zerstörung der osmanischen Architektur in Südosteuropa

Most of them were destroyed by Austrians

It would be better for these buildings to be turned into museums instead.

Need more of it . The Ottoman era was a blot on the region. Greeks in particular faced nothing short of a holocaust in 1910s.

I see westerners knowing nothing about Balkans commenting on this. Funny how cultures that are babies in comparison to the cultures and civilizations on the Balkans feel like they are so superior just because they colonized and stole the whole world. You are just babies with stolen wealth.
I even heard a comment „Austrians did this“ huh?
Balkaners like to claim things of other balkaners, we are used to that, but now we have to fend off westerners trying to steal our accomplishments too?
No, no Hussars, no Austrians destroyed anything here, it was all Balkan.

Surprised that N. Macedonia isn’t in the red. Aren’t they famous for touching up archeological sites?

Edit: This one maybe? Search turned it up. https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/s/0s0wW1nI6L

Bosnia should be with minimum damage

What about the buildings and castles they destroyed when the conquered the region?

Saddest one for me is adakale which was an island in danube, which is full of old ottoman civil architecture. It was inhabitated mostly by turks and it was destroyed (submerged) after a nearby dam construction.

How about a map showing destruction of buildings over 100-200 years old in all countries? In former Ottoman territories that means Ottoman architecture but look at buildings of similar age in Berlin for example.

Worth mentioning that the Ottomans themselves destroyed a huge amount of buildings in these areas when they first came. For example Romania had a series of fortresses along the Danube that the Ottomans forced them to destroy so they cannot protect themselves in case they ever decided to fully invade.

This post doesn’t really give me context. Were these buildings destroyed in war. If they were destroyed in peacetime, was it intentional? Were they derelict and torn down? Were they knocked down to build much needed apartments?

Many commenters are acting as if this is good, but it seems like a weird thing to justify without knowing why and how this happened.

I want some sources on that

Like what counts as architecture

Or what is the average survival rate of non-Ottoman architecture

What time period is counted. Does buildings falling to ruin from the 15th century count the same as things from the 20th

Like for example Hungary is Red, but ottomans left the country in the second half of the 17th century, while they were present in the Balkans in the early 20th century too. Shit built in 1650 is unlikely to survive, while you can find more stuff from 1900.

Except wars are kind of a bitch

Something to point out here, most of the countries west of the Ottoman Empire started from scratch, so they build in their vision. Seems like people here think there use to be huge palaces or something, no. This countries were used mostly for their trading routes. Leaving culture and ethnicity aside. Some of the bridges hat to be rebuild. Some of the places had 0 Muslim population after their Liberation. Also, if they felt that those were symbols of oppression why not remove them, same as many ex soviet countries/satellite states did with soviet symbols?

So colonialism is only bad when the West does it?

Yellowapple1000 is a Turkish propagandist and Ottoman apologist, who constantly makes biased posts with flawed sources that praise the Ottoman Empire and are prejudiced against Balkan peoples, particularly against Serbs, Bulgarians and Greeks.

Proof:

Here he uses the claims of Turkist nationalist Ekrem Ayverdi, to propose the existence of a much larger number of Ottoman buildings than there ever were, as to then blame Balkan peoples for their destruction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/zTXcOJg4e9

Here he does the exact same thing, but with bridges, while providing no sources for his claims.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/ilfGA5oQgj

Here he again uses the Turkist nationalist and architect Ekrem Ayverdi to falsify data about Ottoman buildings in Serbia, as other people in the comments point out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/WabGnPCXfV

Here he tries to depict the Ottomans as having very few cases of the giving the death penalty to people, while providing no sources whatsoever, other than a vague „Ottoman statistics for 1897“.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/5E2J3OQhq9

Here he uses a completely false map, easily disproven by a simple Wikipedia search (as can be seen in my comment), to paint the Greeks as ethnic cleansers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/BJRQwwqB2z

Here he again paints the Greeks as ethnic cleansers, while providing no sources for his claims. Both me and other people point out the map’s flaws in the comments.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/G48yw9N2YZ

And because people have pointed out many times his biases and lack of sources, or use of flawed sources, he has hidden his post history.

u/mappornmod Every time he posts another propagandistic map, he only brings controversy and drama to this community. I have reported him to you before, please deal with him.