The largest countries in the Arab world by land area are Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan. Of those, only Saudi Arabia is on the Asian continent; the others are in Africa.
The roman empire extended for about 4500 miles from west to east.
They were small in size.
The guillotine wasn't invented until the French Revolution in 1789. That is 389 years AFTER the middle ages.
Historically inaccurate. They were not all being ruled by same countries. But todays East Europe was ruled by Ottoman Empire for 400 years and Spain was ruled for 100 years or so, which are not being ruled by the Muslim now
In a pre-mechanical transport and electronic communications age, the size of the Empire stretching across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East made it difficult to communicate information and react to it, making political, military and humanitarian responses even slower and more difficult for timely solutions and reactions.
If by size you mean total area, it would be Iran. The 18th largest country by population is Turkey, not exactly in the middle east.
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It stretched from Libya in the west, through the Middle East and Central Asia, to today's Pakistan in the east.
There are actually three main sects of Islam in the Middle East. In order of size, most populous to least populous: Sunni, Shiite, and Ibadi.
The smallest middle east country by size is Bahrain, 650 square miles.
Such a list can be found on Wikipedia. This list also includes territories, which are italicized, so don't include those as countries.
In terms of physical size, Australia is the sixth largest country.
Tehran, Iran and Istanbul, Turkey are the largest cities in the Middle East after Cairo. Both are roughly the same size at 14 million people.
Cyprus, population: 801,851 (as of 1 Jan 2010) Djibouti is also sometimes considered as part of the Middle East and has a population that is close to that size: 879,000 (as of 2010)
List of smallest countries (1st is the smallest country in the world):Vatican CityMonacoGibraltarTokelauNauru
Size ten shoes. (In middle eastern countries throwing shoes is considered an insult to the person thrown at.)