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Return to Zion
The return to Zion
(,
Shivat Tzion
, or שבי ציון,
Shavei Tzion
, lit.
Zion returnees
) is a term that refers to the event written in the biblical books of
Ezra-Nehemiah
in which the Jews returned to the
land of Israel
from the
Babylonian exile
following the
decree
by the Persian emperor
Cyrus the Great
, the conqueror of the
Babylonian empire
in 538 BC, also known as
Cyrus's Declaration
.
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