Great Migration

Great Migration

Great Migration can refer to any one of several different historical migrations of people, including:

* The Migration Period of Europe, also called the "Barbarian Invasions," between 300 and 700 A.D.
* The Great Serb Migrations from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy, in 1690 and 1737.
* Great Migration (Puritan), the migration of Puritans from England to what is now the Northeastern United States, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Caribbean during the 1630s.
* The Great Migration and Second Great Migration of African Americans from the southern United States to the northern most United States during the 20th century .
* New Great Migration (African American), reverse migration from 1965-2000 from the North, Midwest and the West back to the Southern United States.
* The Great Transatlantic Migration of 1870-1914, a voluntary mass migration of poor Europeans to the Americas.
*The Great Fleet (or Great Migration) of the original Māori settlers of New Zealand from Polynesia.
* Great Migrations (Greyhawk), fictional migrations of the Oeridians and Suloise in the "World of Greyhawk" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game.

See also

*Mass migrations
*Forced migration
*Human migration


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