Deportation

Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. Deportations widely occurred in ancient history, and is well-recorded particularly in ancient Mesopotamia. Mass expulsion may also occur when members of an ethnic group are sent out of a state regardless of nationality. Collective expulsion, or expulsion en masse, is prohibited by several instruments of international Law.

About Deportation in brief

Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The term expulsion is often used as a synonym for deportation, though expulsion is more often used in the context of international law, while deportation is more used in national law. Forced displacement or forced migration of an individual or a group may be caused by deportation, for example ethnic cleansing, and other reasons. Deportations widely occurred in ancient history, and is well-recorded particularly in ancient Mesopotamia. Mass expulsion may also occur when members of an ethnic group are sent out of a state regardless of nationality. Collective expulsion, or expulsion en masse, is prohibited by several instruments of international Law. The precise legal status of the deportees is unclear; but ill-treatment is not recorded. In 395 AD, 18,000 Roman populations of Sophene, Armenia, and Cappadocia, Syria, were deported by the Persian king Shapur II. In mid-3rd century, Greek deportees from north-western Syria were settled in Kashkar, mid-Third century, and were freed by the Arab tribes. Some were deported to Bahrain and were settled by the author Slōkō Kōkbō, who reached Persia and settled in Cappodocia and Syria, and later died in the Persian desert.

The deportations initiated the spread of Christianity in the Sassanian empire. The Roman prisoners of war after the Battle of Carrhae appear to have been deported to Alexandria Margiana near the eastern border in 53 BC, who are said to married to local people. Hyrcanus II, the Jewish king of Judea, was settled among the Jews of Babylon in Parthia after being taken as captive by the Parthian-Jewish forces in 40 BC. Roman POWs in the Antony’s Parthians War may have suffered deportation. Some deportees founded the Chinese city of Li-Jien after becoming soldiers for the Hsiung-nu, but this is doubted. There were cities which were founded and were populated by Romans prisoner of war, including Shadh-Shapur in Meshan, Bishapur in Persis, Wuzurg-shapur, and Gundeshapur. Other destinations were Parthia, Khuzestan, and Asorestan. There was a church for the Romans and another one for Carmanians. In Rēw-Ardashīr, Persis,. there was aChurch for the Roman Romans and one for the Carmanian. Their hypothesized decisive role in spreading Christianity in Persia and their major contribution to Persian economy has been recently criticized by Mosig-Walburg. Their contributions to the Persian economy have been criticized in mid-third century, he said.

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