TY - JOUR T1 - The Fifth Centenary of The First Jewish Migrations to The Ottoman Empire AU - Sonyel, Salâhi R. PY - 1992 DA - April DO - 10.37879/belleten.1992.207 JF - BELLETEN JO - TTK BELLETEN PB - Türk Tarih Kurumu WT - DergiPark SN - 0041-4255 SP - 207 EP - 212 VL - 56 IS - 215 LA - en AB - During the first part of the fifteenth century Jews were subjected to systematic persecution in Bohemia, Austria, and Poland; but it was their oppression in Portugal and Spain, where some of them had submitted, under pain of death, to enforced Christianization, culminating, in 1492, in their expulsion, that gave the greatest impetus to their mass exodus. The Catholic kings, at the end of their reconquista of Spain, had not only cracked down radically on the Moriscoes (Moors), and on all the other Muslims of the Iberian peninsula, they had also envisaged a final solution for their Jewish subjects. KW - Ottoman Empire KW - Jewish Migrations KW - Portugal KW - Spain KW - Christian KW - Fifteenth Century UR - https://doi.org/10.37879/belleten.1992.207 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1747925 ER -