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De stad was in meerderheid Joods, maar verder weet ik het ook niet.
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By c1500, the numbers had grown to 7,986 Greeks and 8,575 Muslims, briefly making the latter the majority. Around the same time, Jews were arriving from Spain. In c1500, there were only 3,770 Jews, but by 1519, there were 15,715, 54% of the city. The invitation of the
Sephardic Jews that had been expelled from Spain by
Ferdinand and Isabella, was an Ottoman demographic strategy aiming to prevent the Greek element from dominating the city.
[5] The Sephardic Jews, Muslims and Greek Orthodox remained the principal groups in the city for the next 4 centuries.
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The city remained the largest Jewish city in the world for at least two centuries, and of its 130,000 inhabitants at the start of the 20th century, around 60,000 were Sephardic Jews.
[6] Some
Romaniote Jews were also present.
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