Great Migration, Great Migrations, or The Great Migration may refer to:
Historical events
* The
Migration Period
The Migration Period ( 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories ...
of Europe from 400 to 800 AD
* Great Migration of
Puritans from England to New England (1620–1643)
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Great Migrations of the Serbs from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy (1690 and 1737)
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Great Migration of Canada, increased migration to Canada (approximately 1815–1850)
* Great Migration, resulting from the 1947
Partition of British India
* African American "Great Migrations":
** The original
Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 an ...
from the southern United States to the northern United States (1910–1930)
** The
Second Great Migration (African American) from the southern United States to the northern and western United States (1941–1970)
** The
New Great Migration, reverse migration from the North, Midwest and the West to the southern United States (1965–present)
* The
Great Migration of 1843, the first large group of settlers to travel via the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country
* The
Great Trek
The Great Trek (, ) was a northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial adminis ...
of South African Boers away from British colonial power
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Great Emigration
The Great Emigration () was the emigration of thousands of Poles and Lithuanians, particularly from the political and cultural élites, from 1831 to 1870, after the failure of the November Uprising of 1830–1831 and of other uprisings such as ...
of Poles
*The Great Migration or
Great Fleet
Great may refer to:
Descriptions or measurements
* Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size
* Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent
People
* List of people known as "the Great"
* Artel Great (bo ...
, the traditional Māori recount of their arrival in New Zealand
Nature
*
Great migration, the continuous year-long clockwise mass migration of wildlife from the ''Ngorongoro'' to ''Serengeti'' in Tanzania to ''Masai Mara'' in Kenya, and back
Arts and media
*''
Great Migrations'', 2010 National Geographic nature documentary television miniseries
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''The Great Migration'' (album), 2006 album by rapper Bronze Nazareth
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Great Migrations (''Greyhawk''), fictional migrations in ''Dungeons & Dragons: World of Greyhawk''
See also
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Mass migration
Mass migration refers to the migration of large groups of people from one geographical area to another. Mass migration is distinguished from individual or small-scale migration; and also from seasonal migration, which may occur on a regular basi ...
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Forced migration
Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR defines 'forced displaceme ...
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Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another ( ...
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Great Upheaval
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Early human migrations
Early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents. They are believed to have begun approximately 2 million years ago with the early expansions out of Africa by ''Homo erectu ...
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Pre-modern human migration
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Indo-European migrations
The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-Europeans, peoples who spoke Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and the derived Indo-European languages, which took place from around 4000 to 1000 BCE, ...
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Great American Interchange
The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land ...
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