15th–17th centuries
Expulsion of Jews from the Kingdom of Naples ordered by Ferdinand the Catholic
1510·Naples
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Ferdinand the Catholic, having become master of the kingdom of Naples, applied there the policy conducted in his other states. The edict ordered the departure of Jews and *neofiti*; a few banking families initially obtained permission to remain in exchange for a contribution, before the measure was made universal some twenty years later.
The kingdom of Naples had served as a refuge for the exiles from Sicily and Spain: a second exile thus began. The families made their way to Rome, Ancona, Ferrara, Venice, and the Ottoman Empire, where Salonika and Constantinople received these communities of Iberian tongue.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Expulsion
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Italie
Cecil Roth, *The History of the Jews of Italy* ; Nicola Ferorelli, *Gli ebrei nell'Italia meridionale* ; Shlomo Simonsohn, *The Jews in Sicily*.