<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Jews_from_Spain" id="mwWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Expulsion of Jews from Spain">The Jews are expelled from Spain</a>: 40,000–200,000 leave. Sultan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayezid_II" id="mwWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bayezid II">Bayezid II</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" id="mwWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>, learning of this, dispatches the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Navy" id="mwWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ottoman Navy">Ottoman Navy</a> to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly  to the cities of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki" id="mwXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thessaloniki">Thessaloniki</a> (in modern-day Greece) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/İzmir" id="mwXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="İzmir">İzmir</a> (in modern-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" id="mwXg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>).<sup about="#mwt33" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_2#cite_note-4" id="mwXw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwYA">[4]</span></a></sup>
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