By the end of the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire had the largest Jewish population in the world, as it provided a principal place of refuge for Jews driven ou

By the end of the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire had the largest Jewish population in the world, as it provided a principal place of refuge for Jews driven out of Western Europe by massacres and persecution. Your frame of reference includes the last 70 years, but not the 1880 years prior starting from 70 CE?