Mongol remnant states in Balkan area

What if there had been one or several little Mongol Khanates in Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania etc. (like the Kalmyks in Caucasus) .Would they stay Bhuddist and exists up to the 18th/19th century ? How would the nation building in the balkan area be affected with a sizable Bhuddist population ?
 
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What if there had been one or several little Mongol Khanates in Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania etc. (like the Kalmyks in Caucasus) .Would they stay Bhuddist and exists up to the 18th/19th century ? How would the nation building in the balkan area be affected with a sizable Bhuddist population ?

I highly doubt that the Christian powers or the Ottoman Empire would tolerate the existence of an isolated population of Buddhists without bearing the brunt of religious persecution.
 
I think their best bet would be to establish themselves in the Pannonian Plains, displacing/absorbing the Magyars
 
I highly doubt that the Christian powers or the Ottoman Empire would tolerate the existence of an isolated population of Buddhists without bearing the brunt of religious persecution.

Wouldn't the Ottomans just fit them into their millet system? They did that for their Jewish and Christian minorities, after all.
 
Wouldn't the Ottomans just fit them into their millet system? They did that for their Jewish and Christian minorities, after all.

Buddhists and especially shamanists aren't "People of the Book."

However, the Ottomans, especially early on, were a lot less anal about religion though, and Muslim dynasties in India quit violently persecuting Hindus pretty quickly.
 
Buddhists and especially shamanists aren't "People of the Book."

However, the Ottomans, especially early on, were a lot less anal about religion though, and Muslim dynasties in India quit violently persecuting Hindus pretty quickly.

Yeah, the Mughals were pretty tolerant up until Aurangzeb. Better to just impose a tithe on Buddhists and their monasteries rather than persecute them. One ensures a steady, permanent stream of funds into the treasury; the other not so much.
 
I highly doubt that the Christian powers or the Ottoman Empire would tolerate the existence of an isolated population of Buddhists without bearing the brunt of religious persecution.

The Bhuddist Kalmyks in Caucasus were able to survive as ethnicity until today, although they were surrounded by the Crimean Khanate (Ottoman vassal), Muslim Caucasian peoples and Cossacks/Orthodox Russia.There had been a Khanate until the very late 18th century. I would not rule out the possebility, that some of them maintain their culture in the Balkan area, too.
 
The Kalmyks were a group of Oriats who migrated from Dzhungaria in 1607 (e.g., several hundred years after the Mongol Khanate). While they migrated into the Astrakhan region against the wishes of Russia, they remained a "state within a state" at Russian suffrage, because they were a useful ally against the Muslim Turkic peoples who otherwise occupied the area.

It's hard to imagine the Kalmyks migrating much further west, as neither the Ottomans nor Poland-Lithuania had much reason to accept them into their territory.

It's also worth noting that prior to the 17th century, most Mongols were not Buddhist, so even if you managed to get a "Mongol" population into Europe, it would likely not be Buddhist, but probably either Christian or Muslim. Basically a racially mixed population similar to the Hazara in Afghanistan.
 
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