Editing Population transfer (section)

==Historical background==

The earliest known examples of population transfers took place in the context of war and empire. As part of [[Sennacherib]]'s campaign [[Assyrian siege of Jerusalem|against King Hezekiah of Jerusalem]] (701 BCE) "200,150 people great and small, male and female" were transferred to other lands in the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]]. Similar population transfers occurred under the [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid]] and [[Byzantine Empire]]s. Population transfers are considered incompatible with the values of post-Enlightenment European societies, but this was usually limited to the home territory of the colonial power itself and population transfers continued in European colonies during the 20th century.<ref name=Michigan>{{cite web |title=Population Transfers in Mediterranean History: Ottoman Empire in the Fourteenth - Seventeenth Centuries |website=University of Michigan |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gocek/Work/ja/Gocek.Muge.ja.population.transfers.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gocek/Work/ja/Gocek.Muge.ja.population.transfers.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>