Firenji demographics

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The Southern Continent was known to Muslims since the early 1200s (C.E.). The natives were of mainly Indonesian and South Indian in origin (unlike the OTL aborigines). Even then, the contact with the rest of the world was pretty limited, as the more hospitable Southwest.

A slow but steady immigration started in the late 1300s, during the second wave of Turkic-Mongolian invasions. Mostly people of oppressed denominations migrated there, of different geographic origin, from Egypt to Persia and Balochistan. This was the same time when the Caliph of Cairo decided to claim these lands, and use it a dumping ground for unwanted elements. The name of the country is mostly originated from this cultural diversity, in the sense of ferengi (originally used for the Frankish crusaders) as foreign, stranger.
The first attempts of local independence was ended when the first Europeans had shown up in force. The West was firmly in the hand of the Caliphate, but their influence waned in the East, resulting in the establishment of European trading posts - and later settlements.
The 1600-1700s were spent in a constant seesawing of the nominal border in the inhospitable Middle Australia. The current borders got more or less settled during the Normann exodus from Brittany, when the remains of the Normann armies extended their foothold.
The next wave of immigration was in the early 1800s, when the Europeans take control over East Africa, and significant African Muslim population had to look for a new home.