Place

Granada

City in Andalusia, taken by Ferdinand and Isabella in January 1492.

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Jews, Expulsion of (Spain; Portugal), Encyclopedia.com (Gale). Scholarship & press
Henry Kamen estimates that there were no more than 70,000 Jews in Castile (about 1.6 percent of the population) and no more than 10,000 Jews in Aragon (about 1.2 percent of the population).
Of those, the best evidence suggests that most converted rather than emigrated.
Over ten thousand Jews left via the Mediterranean coast in 1492–1493 (including Aragonese and Castilian Jews), and possibly as many as forty to fifty thousand left overall
most traumatic was the terrible cost to Jewish individuals and families, who were faced with the horrific choice of giving up their faith or their home
Expulsions (Encyclopaedia Judaica), Encyclopaedia Judaica, via Encyclopedia.com. Scholarship & press
The expulsions from Spain and Portugal, 1492–97 (where the number of victims has been assessed by historians from 100,000 to several hundreds of thousands
The Expulsion from Spain, 1492 CE (Hebrew account of 1495 with editors’ notes), Internet Jewish History Sourcebook, Fordham University. Primary record
Other estimates run from 100,000 to 800,000.
Edict of the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, 1492 (translation by Edward Peters), Center for Online Judaic Studies, 31 Mar 1492. Primary record
Given in our city of Granada, the XXXI day of the month of March, the year of the birth of our lord Jesus Christ one thousand four hundred and ninety-two years.

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