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History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire
By the time of
the Ottoman conquests
,
Anatolia
had been home to ancient communities of
Hellenistic
and later
Byzantine Jews
. The
Ottoman Empire
became a safe haven for
Iberian Jews fleeing persecution
, and in its heyday, the city of
Thessaloniki had a Jewish majority
.
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