Event

Ottoman welcome of Spanish exiles, 1492 onward

Settlement of exiles from Spain in Ottoman towns, and the order to provincial governors to receive them.

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Bayezid II c. 1492 According to Encyclopaedia Judaica Scholarship & press 1
The order is reported by the chronicler Elijah Capsali, as the Encyclopaedia Judaica cites him.

Bayezid II order to the governors, as reported by Elijah Capsali Scholarship & press 1
Ottoman Empire Scholarship & press 1 2

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c. 1492 Ottoman welcome of Spanish exiles, 1492 onward
c. 1492 Bayezid II leads Ottoman welcome of Spanish exiles, 1492 onward According to Encyclopaedia Judaica

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Bayazid II (Encyclopaedia Judaica), Encyclopaedia Judaica, via Encyclopedia.com. Scholarship & press
According to R. Elijah Capsali, Sultan Bayazid issued an order to the governors of the provinces not to refuse those Jews entry or cause them difficulties but to receive them cordially and provide them with the help they needed to settle themselves.
Following the expulsion from Spain, great numbers of Jews streamed into the Ottoman Empire and settled in various towns of the Balkans and Anatolia.
Nevertheless, according to the same source, Bayazid was a devout Muslim and was responsible for certain cases of forced conversion of Jews to Islam.
He was also the only sultan to enforce the prohibition against building new synagogues.
Jews, Expulsion of (Spain; Portugal), Encyclopedia.com (Gale). Scholarship & press
The economic costs to Spain of the expulsion, once thought to be significant, now seem to have been relatively minor.

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