Great Migration

Great Migration, Great Migrations, or The Great Migration may refer to:

Historical events

  • The Migration Period of Europe from 400 to 800 AD
  • Great Migration of Puritans from England to New England (1620–1643)
  • Great Migrations of the Serbs from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy (1690 and 1737)
  • 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) 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 of South African Boers away from British colonial power
  • Great Emigration of Poles
  • The Great Migration or Great Fleet, the traditional Māori recount of their arrival in New Zealand

Nature

  • Great migration, a yearly wildebeest migration in the Serengeti

Arts and media

  • Great Migrations, 2010 National Geographic nature documentary television miniseries
  • The Great Migration (album), 2006 album by rapper Bronze Nazareth
  • Great Migrations (Greyhawk), fictional migrations in Dungeons & Dragons: World of Greyhawk

See also

  • Mass migration
  • Forced migration
  • Human migration
  • Great Upheaval
  • Early human migrations
  • Pre-modern human migration
  • Indo-European migrations
  • Great American Interchange
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