Sephardic Migration Out of Spain and Portugal
The nearly 200,000 Spanish Jews who went into exile in Portugal, northern Europe and the entire Mediterranean basin were called Sepharades or Sephardim, based on the Hebrew name for Spain.
This summary of the countries the Jews were expelled from helps trace our ancestry through Europe.
70 Jews defeated in Judea by Romans, Diaspora begins, 100,000 Jewish slaves exported
673 Jews expelled from Spain
855 Jews expelled from Italy
1180 Jews expelled from France
1290 Jews expelled from England
1360 Jews expelled from Hungary
1348 Jews expelled from Germany
1348 the Black Death raged in Germany
1394 Jews expelled from France
1421 Jews expelled from Austria
1445 Jews expelled from Lithuania
1492 Jews expelled from Spain
1497 Jews expelled from Portugal
1687 Jews no longer welcome in Norway
1693 major famine in France
1710 Black Death in Denmark and Sweden
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