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Section sizes

Section size for Persecution of Christians (66 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	13,405	13,405
Antiquity	408	23,185
New Testament	1,511	1,511
Early Judeo-Christian	4,799	4,799
Roman Empire	130	16,467
Neronian persecution	2,356	2,356
From Nero to Decius	5,459	11,469
Voluntary martyrdom	6,010	6,010
Decian persecution	1,550	1,550
Valerianic persecution	962	962
Late antiquity	22	45,323
Roman Empire	228	25,920
The Great Persecution	7,940	7,940
Constantinian period	7,004	7,004
Valentinianic–Theodosian period	9,178	9,178
Heraclian period	1,570	1,570
Sassanian Empire	12,009	17,130
During the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628	5,121	5,121
Pre-Islamic Arabia	2,251	2,251
Early Middle Ages	25	39,744
Viking invasion of Europe	1,613	2,251
Christians of Scotland killed by Vikings	638	638
Caliphates	20	25,346
Rashidun Caliphate	8,017	8,017
Umayyad Caliphate	5,593	5,593
Almoravid Caliphate	4,328	4,328
Abbasid Caliphate	7,388	7,388
Byzantine Empire	12,122	12,122
High Middle Ages (1000–1200)	162	36,036
Fatimid Caliphate	4,169	4,169
Seljuk Empire	7,506	7,506
Crusades	15,924	20,234
Albigensian Crusade	2,478	2,478
Northern (Baltic) crusades	1,832	1,832
Ilkhanate	3,965	3,965
Late Middle Ages	24	5,771
Western Europe	3,123	3,123
Mamluk Sultanate	1,422	1,422
Timurid Empire	1,202	1,202
Early modern period	27	40,633
Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation	1,619	1,619
China	7,404	7,404
French Revolution	5,692	5,692
Japan	1,857	1,857
Kingdom of Mysore	6,479	6,479
Ottoman Empire	7,925	17,555
Ottoman Albania and Kosovo	9,630	9,630
Modern era (1815 to 1989)	30	65,122
Communist Albania	3,691	3,691
Iraq	1,632	1,632
Madagascar	2,237	2,237
Nazi Germany	5,581	5,581
Ottoman Empire	17,494	17,494
Turkey	1,682	1,682
Soviet Union	14,817	14,817
Spain	9,816	9,816
United States	4,618	4,618
Warsaw Pact	3,364	3,364
North Korea	160	160
Current situation (1989 to the present)	19,573	19,573
See also	1,294	1,294
Notes	47	47
References	33	33
Sources	6,763	6,763
Further reading	299	299
External links	384	384
Total	297,612	297,612

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