Return to Zion
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The return to Zion is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible, in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah—subjugated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire—were freed from the Babylonian captivity following the Persian conquest of Babylon. After their release, the Persian king Cyrus the Great issued a proclamation known as the Edict of Cyrus that enabled the freed Jewish populace, exiled from Judah, to return to Jerusalem and the Land of Judah, which had begun to function as a self-governing Jewish province under the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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See also
- Gathering of Israel
- History of ancient Israel and Judah
- History of Zionism
- Jewish diaspora
- Persian Jews
- Pre-Modern Aliyah
- Proto-Zionism
- Shavei Zion (a Moshav of cooperative agricultural community)
- Yehud (today a city in Israel)
- Yom HaAliyah
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