Toshavim and Megorashim

Toshavim (Hebrew: תושבים, "residents") or Bildiyīn (Moroccan Arabic: بلديين, lit. 'of the country, natives') and Megorashim (Hebrew: מגורשים "expelled") or Rūmiyīn (Moroccan Arabic: روميين, lit. 'Romans, Europeans, foreigners') are terms used to refer to the two mutually constitutive groups within Jewish communities in the Maghreb especially after the Catholic Monarchs' 1492 Alhambra Decree; Toshavim and Bildiyīn refer to local Berber or Arabized Maghrebi Jews who had been inhabiting the lands in which the Sephardic Jews expelled from Iberia (Portugal and Spain) in the late 15th century settled, and Megorashim and Rūmiyīn refer to those Iberian Jews who settled in the Maghreb.

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