Is there a place in Europe that has never been Christian?
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The Sámi peoples of northern Sweden (Swedish Lappland) and Finland (Finnish Lappland) seemed a likely candidate, but best evidence is that Lutheran conversion efforts in the 17th and early 18th centuries wad complete. Twentieth and twenty-first century revivalist efforts are just that by best account, demonstrated most forcefully perhaps by their inability to have retained even a single historical sacred drum of the thousands across the region extant 300 or so years ago.
Next I looked further east in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk Oblasts of the Russian Federation, but the very high percentage of declared ethnic Russians (89% and 96% respectively) compared to the traditional Sámi, Komi and Nenets peoples again speaks to the unlikelihood of any true continuance for the traditional animism.
However the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (sometimes Nenetsia) next further east, stretching to the northern reaches of the Ural Mountains along the Barents Sea and Kara Sea coasts, still comprises over 25% Nenets (19% mostly Tundra Nenets) and Komi (9% mostly Izhma Komi) peoples. Here, at the furthest northeast reaches of Europe, Christian missionary efforts seem to have been incomplete.
The same might possibly be true for the larger Komi Republic next south, hugging the western side of the Urals, though the odds are low.
Finally in the Caucasus, there are sevveral Islamic (and one Buddhist!) republics. However this region was heavily proselytized by Christian missionaries prior to the 13th century, so it is doubtful there is any region that was never Christian prior to that time.
- Adygea: 13% Islam
- Dagestan: 85% iSLAM
- Ingushetia: 96% Islam
- Kabardino-Balkaria: 64% Islam
- Kalmykia: 48% Buddhist!
- Karachay-Cherkessia: 64% Islam
- Mordovia: 2% Islam
- North Ossetia–Alania: 4% Islam
- Chechnya: 95% Islam
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