Great Migration, Great Migrations, or The Great Migration may refer to:
Historical events
* The
Migration Period 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
The Great Migrations of the Serbs ( sr, Велике сеобе Срба), also known as the Great Exoduses of the Serbs, refers mainly to two large migrations of Serbs from various territories under the rule of the Ottoman Empire to regions u ...
from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy (1690 and 1737)
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Great Migration of Canada, increased migration to Canada (approximately 1815–1850)
* Great Migration, resulting from the 1947
Partition of British India
The Partition of British India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: India and Pakistan. T ...
* African American "Great Migrations":
** The original
Great Migration (African American) from the southern United States to the northern United States (1910–1930)
** The
Second Great Migration (African American)
In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West. It began in 1940, through World War II ...
from the southern United States to the northern and western United States (1941–1970)
** The
New Great Migration
The New Great Migration is the demographic change from 1970 to the present, which is a reversal of the previous 60-year trend of black migration within the United States.
Since 1970, deindustrialization of cities in the Northeastern and ...
, reverse migration from the North, Midwest and the West to the southern United States (1965–present)
* The
Great Migration of 1843, the first large group of settlers to travel via the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country
* The
Great Trek
The Great Trek ( af, Die Groot Trek; nl, De Grote Trek) was a Northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyon ...
of South African Boers away from British colonial power
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Great Emigration 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'', 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
The Great Trek ( af, Die Groot Trek; nl, De Grote Trek) was a Northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyon ...
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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
Forced displacement (also forced migration) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, g ...
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Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (ex ...
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Great Upheaval
The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation, and the Deportation of the Acadians (french: Le Grand Dérangement or ), was the forced removal, by the British, of the Acadian pe ...
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Early human migrations
Early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents. They are believed to have begun approximately 2 million years ago with the early expansions out of Africa by '' Homo erect ...
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Pre-modern human migration
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Indo-European migrations
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Great American Interchange
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