Spanish Expulsion Aftermath
Official state tax and population registers, called a defter in Arabic, compiled by the Ottomans, are very specific in their figures and provide quantifiable, state-recorded evidence that the Jewish population grew significantly in the Land of Israel in the decades after the Spanish expulsion.
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Official state tax and population registers, called a defter, compiled by the Ottomans after the Ottoman conquest of the region (1517), are very specific in numbers and gives quantifiable, state-recorded proof that the Jewish population grew significantly in the Land of Israel in the decades after the Spanish expulsion.
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