Great Surgun
The Great Surgun (, the Great Exile) was the forced deportation of the population (mainly Armenians) from Eastern Armenia to the territory of the central and northern parts of Safavid Iran, which was carried out in 1604-1605 by the order of King of Kings, Shah Abbas the Great during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1618). Among the deported population (about 350,000 people), the largest number were Armenians. According to various estimates, the number of expelled Armenians ranged from 250,000 to 300,000 people. During this time Armenian cities and villages were plundered and destroyed. Many Armenians were brutally killed, subjected to violence or died on the way, less than half survived during the march. The deportation changed the ethnic demographic picture of the Armenian highlands, Armenian Highlands radically, greatly decreasing the percentage of Armenian population of the region. Mass deportation of Armenians made them a minority in Nakhichevan (part of the present-day Nakhch ...
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Deportation
Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The term ''expulsion'' is often used as a synonym for deportation, though expulsion is more often used in the context of international law, while deportation is more used in national (municipal) law. Forced displacement or forced migration of an individual or a group may be caused by deportation, for example ethnic cleansing, and other reasons. A person who has been deported or is under sentence of deportation is called a ''deportee''. Definition Definitions of deportation apply equally to nationals and foreigners. Nonetheless, in the common usage the expulsion of foreign nationals is usually called deportation, whereas the expulsion of nationals is called extradition, banishment, exile, or penal transportation. For example, in the United States: "Strictly speaking, transportation, extradition, and deportation, although each has the effect of removing a person from the country, are differe ...
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