Great Migration, Great Migrations, or The Great Migration may refer to:
Historical events
* The
Migration Period
The Migration Period was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman ...
of Europe from 400 to 800 AD
* Great Migration of
Puritans from England to New England (1620–1643)
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Great Migrations of the Serbs from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy (1690 and 1737)
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Great Migration of Canada
The Great Migration of Canada (also known as the Great Migration from Britain or the second wave of immigration to Canada) was a period of high immigration to Canada from 1815 to 1850, which involved over 800,000 immigrants, mainly of British and I ...
, increased migration to Canada (approximately 1815–1850)
* Great Migration, resulting from the 1947
Partition of British India
* African American "Great Migrations":
** The original
Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 an ...
from the southern United States to the northern United States (1910–1930)
** The
Second Great Migration (African American) from the southern United States to the northern and western United States (1941–1970)
** The
New Great Migration, reverse migration from the North, Midwest and the West to the southern United States (1965–present)
* The
Great Migration of 1843
The Oregon Trail was a east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of what is now the state of Kansa ...
, the first large group of settlers to travel via the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country
* The
Great Trek of South African Boers away from British colonial power
*
Great Emigration
The Great Emigration ( pl, Wielka Emigracja) was the emigration of thousands of Poles and Lithuanians, particularly from the political and cultural élites, from 1831 to 1870, after the failure of the November Uprising of 1830–1831 and of oth ...
of Poles
*The Great Migration or
Great Fleet
Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements
* Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size
* Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent
People
* List of people known as "the Great"
*Artel Great (born ...
, the traditional Māori recount of their arrival in New Zealand
Nature
*
Great migration, a yearly wildebeest migration in the Serengeti
Arts and media
*''
Great Migrations
''Great Migrations'' is a seven-episode nature documentary television miniseries that airs on the National Geographic Channel, featuring the great migrations of animals around the globe. The seven-part show is the largest programming event in t ...
'', 2010 National Geographic nature documentary television miniseries
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''The Great Migration'' (album), 2006 album by rapper Bronze Nazareth
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Great Migrations (''Greyhawk''), fictional migrations in ''Dungeons & Dragons: World of Greyhawk''
See also
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Great Trek
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Mass migration
Mass migration refers to the migration of large groups of people from one geographical area to another. Mass migration is distinguished from individual or small-scale migration; and also from seasonal migration, which may occur on a regular basis ...
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Forced migration
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Human migration
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Great Upheaval
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Early human migrations
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Pre-modern human migration
:'' This article focusses on prehistorical migration since the Neolithic period until AD 1800. See Early human migrations for migration prior to the Neolithic, History of human migration for modern history, and human migration for contemporary migr ...
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Indo-European migrations
The Indo-European migrations were hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) speakers, and subsequent migrations of people speaking derived Indo-European languages, which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially expla ...
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Great American Interchange
The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which lan ...
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