Jistory

Place in Italy

What happened to the Jews in Apulia

28 events, 867 AD to 1793 AD

9th century

  1. 867–886 AD Basil I's forced conversion drive against Apulian Jews · Apulia, Italy
  2. c. 872 AD Religious persecution of the Jews of Oria · Oria, Italy

10th century

  1. 919–944 AD Romanus I Lecapenus attempts forced conversion and mobs massacre Jews · Apulia, Italy
  2. 925 AD Attack in Oria · Oria, Italy
  3. c. 932 AD Destruction of the Jewish quarter of Bari by a mob · Bari, Italy
  4. 932–936 AD Romanus I's discriminatory laws and forced conversions in southern Italy · Oria, Italy

11th century

  1. 1030 AD Fire destroys the ghetto of Bari · Bari, Italy
  2. 1068 AD Rival tax claims on the Jews of Bari · Bari, Italy

13th century

  1. 1290–1294 AD Forced baptism of Apulian Jews under Charles II of Anjou · Apulia, Italy
  2. c. 1294 AD Trani blood libel and forced conversion of southern Italian Jews · Trani, Italy
  3. c. 1299 AD Jews leave Brindisi to escape forced conversions and taxes · Brindisi, Italy

14th century

  1. 1311 AD King Robert orders punishment of relapsed converts · Apulia, Italy
  2. 1323 AD Forced conversion of Brindisi Jews by Christian inhabitants · Brindisi, Italy
  3. 1343 AD Joanna I renews punishment of relapsed converts · Apulia, Italy
  4. 1368 AD Harsh treatment of converts returning to Judaism · Brindisi, Italy

15th century

  1. 1463 AD Anti-Jewish outbreaks in Bari and Lecce · Bari, Italy
  2. 1463 AD Burning of Jewish quarter and expulsion of Jews from Lecce · Lecce, Italy
  3. 1480 AD Ottoman invasion of Otranto kills Jews · Otranto, Italy
  4. 1495 AD Massacre in Lecce · Lecce, Italy
  5. 1495 AD Persecution of Apulian Jews during French occupation · Apulia, Italy
  6. 1495 AD Pillage of Jewish property in Bari · Bari, Italy
  7. 1495 AD Plunder and expulsion of the Jews of Lecce during French invasion · Lecce, Italy
  8. 1497 AD Lecce synagogue converted into a church · Lecce, Italy

16th century

  1. 1515 AD Expulsion of the neofiti · Apulia, Italy
  2. 1520 AD Limited readmission of Jews to Bari · Bari, Italy
  3. 1540 AD Jews driven from Apulia by the viceroy of Naples · Apulia, Italy
  4. 1540–1541 AD Final expulsion of the Jews from Bari · Bari, Italy

18th century

  1. 1793 AD Arrest of rabbis and synagogue officials in district of Bari · Bari, Italy

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