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Forced migrations in Europe

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Treaty of Lausanne
1923 peace treaty between Turkey and the Allies
Siege of Mariupol
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
flight and expulsion of Germans
exodus & deportation during and after the end of the Second World War from 1945 to 1950
Generalplan Ost
Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Jews, Slavs & Roma
Ada Kaleh
island
child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian war
violent transfer of children from the occupied lands of Ukraine to Russia during the Russian-Ukrainian war for the purpose of their Russification and genocide of the Ukrainian nation
Highland Clearances
the mass eviction of tenants from the Scottish Highlands in the 18th and 19th centuries
Danube Swabians
ethnic group
Great Serb Migrations
two large migrations of Serbs from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy
Expulsion of the Moriscos
17th century expulsion of Moriscos from Spain
Treaty of Craiova
1940 territorial settlement between the kingdoms of Romania and Bulgaria
expulsion of the Jews from the territories of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon
Expulsion of Jews from the territories of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1492
Muhacir
thumb|250px|Muhacirs arriving in Istanbul crossing the [[Galata Bridge, Ottoman Empire, in 1912, with the New Mosque in the background]] Muhacir is a term referring to Ottoman Muslim citizens and their descendants born after the onset of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Muhacirs overwhelmingly self-identified as Muslims and their numbers are estimated in the millions. The refugees from Macedonia, Bulgaria, and parts of Serbia had primarily Anatolian Turkish background. Other backgrounds included Albanians, Bosniaks, Chechens, Circassians, Crimean Tatars, Pomaks, Macedonian Muslims, Greek
Operation Keelhaul
forced repatriation of former Soviet Armed Forces POWs of Germany
Ver sacrum
Ancient Italian dedication practice for colonies
Afrancesado
thumb|200px|Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte by [[François Gérard. Bonaparte was King of Spain from 1808 to 1814]] Afrancesado (, ; "Francophile" or "turned-French", lit. "Frenchified" or "French-alike") refers to the Spanish and Portuguese supporters of Enlightenment ideas, Liberalism, or the French Revolution, that supported Napoleon's occupation as a means to implant these ideas in Spain.
special settlements in the Soviet Union
involuntary settlements for deported minorities in the Soviet Union
Home Children
child migration scheme under which more than 100,000 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa
Prussian deportations
mass expulsions from Prussia (1885–1890)
Polish Border Strip
German WWI annexation proposals
1969 Northern Ireland riots
series of political and sectarian riots, August 1969
Black Sea slave trade
Trafficking of people across the Black Sea
Baltic University
temporary university for displaced persons after WW II
Jaworzno concentration camp
concentration camp in Poland
Expulsion of the Albanians, 1877–1878
Forced migrations from areas of Serbia and Montenegro
Zivilarbeiter
thumb|ID card of a Zivilarbeiter from Nazi-occupied Soviet Union right|thumb|200px|Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer (Workbook for Foreigner) identity document issued to a Polish Zivilarbeiter in 1942 together with a letter "P" patch Poles were required to wear attached to their clothing. Zivilarbeiter () refers primarily to ethnic Polish residents from the General Government (Nazi-occupied central Poland), used during World War II as forced laborers in the Third Reich.
Degredado
Degredado is the traditional Portuguese term for an exiled convict, especially between the 15th and 18th centuries.
La retirada
1939 Spanish refugees exodus to France following the Spanish Civil War
The Children of Creuse
Children forcibly moved from Réunion to France 1963–1982)
Ballinglass Incident
Mass eviction during the Great Famine in Ireland
2006 deportation of Georgians from Russia
mass deportation of ethnic Georgians in Russia
exodus of Muslims from Serbia
forced displacement in Serbia during 1862