Diaspora of the Jewish People
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A diaspora is a dispersal or migration of a population and a culture from a central place to other parts of the world. The most famous diaspora, known as the Diaspora, was the migration of the Jewish people to regions outside the original settlement in Palestine, and much of Jewish history since that time has been an attempt to bring as many of the Jewish people as possible back to their homeland, to their Promised Land. A Greek diaspora has been under way for centuries, extending back to the era of Hellenistic culture. During much of the history of the last two thousand years, there have been thriving Greek communities in different parts of the world, all maintaining certain Greek traditions and looking back to the Greek homeland as the source of its culture and strength. There also was no Greek state for centuries so that the diaspora had the same goal as the Jewish diaspora--recreating a Greek homeland. While a diaspora indicates a dispersal, it also indicates a collective memory of a culture, and this is seen in the case of the Greek diaspora, a diaspora which in most regions has dissipated as the people have become assimilated or have emigrated once more, often back to Greece. The word "diaspora" is derived from the Greek for "a scattering" or "to scatter about." Capitalized, the word has come to signify the body of Jews today living not in Israel but scattered outside the boundaries of Israel. Diaspora is much more than this, however, being seen as both a way o
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l, also known as Ataturk. In 1922-1923, Greece took in 1.2 million expelled Greek Christians and Turkey took in 650,000 Turkish Muslims in an exchange. A Greek community lived in Cairo and Alexandria and survived until the advent of Nasserism. They left the country gradually from 1956 to 1962. A Greek diaspora also exists in sub-Saharan Africa, and it is made up of traders, many in Addis Ababa. The Greeks were numerous in that area until 1974 when the emperor was deposed. Greeks remain in many towns and cities of central and southern Africa. Large Greek colonies are also found in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
The development of Hellenistic culture derived from one of the primary reasons for diasporas--war. For two decades after the death of Alexander the Great, war raged among his generals as they fought over territories of his vast empire. Several new states arose in these areas. These new kingdoms are named Hellenistic because their culture was predominantly Greek. In Egypt the rule of Ptolemy and his descendants ruled as Hellenized pharaohs until the last Ptolemaic queen, Cleopatra. The most extensive of the Hellenistic kingdoms was that of the leader Seleukos, whose descendants were known as the Seleu
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