Historical migrations

period in European history with large migration of peoples, from the 4th to the 6th centuries

thumb|Stages of German eastern settlement in pink and three shades of green; the black line represents Holy Roman Empire borders in 1348 thumb|German language areas in 1910 in today's Poland, [[Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), Lithuania, and Czech Republic before expulsion of Germans ]] '''' (, ) is the term for the early medieval and high medieval migration of Germanic peoples and Germanization of the areas populated by Slavic, Baltic and Uralic peoples; the most settled area is sometimes known today as . Germanization efforts included eastern parts of Francia, East Francia, and the Holy Roman Em

thumbnail|An early painting of the first migration of the Fengu people|Fengu, one of the affected peoples of the Mfecane

two large migrations of Serbs from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy

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

early 19th-century United States domestic policy involving forced resettlement of indigenous peoples

expansion of the Turkic tribes and Turkic languages, mainly between the 6th and 11th centuries

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emigration of the elite from Poland in the 19th century, following the November uprising (1830-1831)

exploration, settlement, and raids performed by Norse population

1755–1764 British forced removal of Acadians from Maritime Canada

southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam from the 11th century to the mid-18th century, from its original heartland in the Red River Delta, tripling ts territory

The Ostflucht (; "flight from the East") was the migration of Germans, in the later 19th century and early 20th century, from areas which were then eastern parts of Germany to more industrialized regions in central and western Germany. The migrants originated in East Prussia, West Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and Posen; they moved to provinces along the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. Most of the migrants were ethnic Germans, but many migrants to the Ruhr were of Polish ethnicity, later known as Ruhrpolen.

migration of African Americans from the Southern U.S. after World War II

Forced migrations from areas of Serbia and Montenegro

the rush of Han Chinese into Manchuria, during the hundred-year period beginning in the last half of the 19th century.

1771 population movement in Asia

medieval migration of Arabs

phoenician colonization in North Africa