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European Jews were at first concentrated largely in southern Europe. ... [38] [39] [40] Many Jews were also expelled from Spain after the Alhambra Decree in 1492.
In the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135 CE, 580,000 Jews were slain, according to Cassius Dio (lxix. 14). According to Theodor Mommsen, in the first century C.E. there were no fewer than 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt, in a total of 8,000,000 inhabitants; of these 200,000 lived in Alexandria, whose total population was 500,000.
The riot raged in Barcelona until Aug. 10, and many Jews (though not 11,000 as claimed by some authorities) were baptized. On the last-named day began the attack upon the Juderia in Girona; several Jews were robbed and killed; many sought safety in flight and a few in baptism. [100] "The last town visited was Lérida (August 13).
MADRID, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a ...
His remains were taken there in 1542, then moved to Cuba in 1795 and then, it had been long thought in Spain, to Seville in 1898. (Reporting by Graham Keeley; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise ...
In Barcelona some 400 Jews were murdered; in Valencia, 250; and in Lérida, 68. [28] [27] After the Massacre of 1391, anti-Jewish measures were intensified. In Castile in 1412, Jewish men had to let their beards grow, and Jews were required to wear a distinctive red badge sewn to their clothes, so they could be recognized.
Jews were known to attain high governmental positions, like how the taifas of Granada and Seville both went to war under Jewish prime ministers. [10] Toledan judge and historian of science Said ibn Said labelled the Taifa of Seville as the “kingdom of poetry”.
Indeed, many Jews who resided in the neighboring provinces of Lleida and Gironda and the kingdom of Valencia had also been affected, [25] as were the Jews of Al-Andalus (Andalucía). [26] While many died a martyr's death, others converted to save themselves.