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Since ancient times, Jews had been successful traders and merchants in the Mediterranean area. In the 15th century, Sephardic Jews were exiled from the Iberian peninsula, and many settled in Greece (joining the more ancient group of Romaniot Jews there), and later, in the 17th century, some arrived in England (from where the Jewish community had been exiled in the 13th century). As a result of the Holocaust the Jewish population in Greece was all but destroyed, while England became a refuge for those who could escape.

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