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Exile means to be away from one's home (i.e. city, state or country) while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened by prison or death upon return. It can be a form of punishment.

It is common to distinguish between internal exile, i.e., forced resettlement within the country of residence, and external exile, deportation
Deportation

Deportation generally means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The expulsion of natives is also called banishment, exile, or penal transportation....
 outside the country of residence.






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Exile means to be away from one's home (i.e. city, state or country) while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened by prison or death upon return. It can be a form of punishment.

It is common to distinguish between internal exile, i.e., forced resettlement within the country of residence, and external exile, deportation
Deportation

Deportation generally means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The expulsion of natives is also called banishment, exile, or penal transportation....
 outside the country of residence.

Exile can also be a self-imposed departure from one's homeland. Self-exile is often practiced as form of protest or to avoid persecution.

Personal exile

Exile was used particularly for political opponents of those in power. The use of exile for political purposes can sometimes be useful for the government because it prevents the exilee from organizing in their native land or from becoming a martyr
Martyr

The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
. People feared exile and banishment so much because it effectively meant that they were going to die. In European history, at a time prior to Roman invasion, people lived completely co-dependently in farm towns where everyone had a function.

Internal Exile

Surikovmenshikovberezovo
Where the state controls a vast territory, it is possible to put great distance between offenders and their families or associates and still fix the location of the exile. Normally this will be in a culturally or economically backward region. Ovid
Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman Empire poet known as Ovid to the English language-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and Roman mythology transformation....
 was made to live on the Black Sea
Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
, the very periphery of the Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. In imperial China the island of Hainan
Hainan

Hainan is the smallest Provinces of China of the People's Republic of China. Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, all but three percent of its land mass is on Hainan Island , from which the province takes its name....
, viewed as the "end of the world", received many exiles. Other victims of imperial displeasure (Galeote Pereira
Galeote Pereira

Galeote Pereira was a 16th century Portugal soldier of fortune who has left us one of the earliest accounts by a westerner of life in China's Ming Dynasty, indeed the first detailed observation of that civilisation by a Cleric since that of Marco Polo....
, Vasco Calvo
Vasco Calvo

*This article is about a fictional character. The real/historical Vasco Calvo was a Portuguese merchant held prisoner by the Ming empire. Not much is known of him beyond the fact of a letter which he managed to get out....
) were made to live in places well within the bounds of "civilisation".

Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism.Born in the Russian Empire to a family of Russian people nobles, Bakunin spent his youth as a junior officer in the Russian army but resigned his commission in 1835....
 and Prince Menshikov were made to live in Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
, Russia's "Wild East". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russians novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system, and for these efforts Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974....
 spent years in Communist Russia's vast interior, in what he was to term The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a massive narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a GULAG labor camp....
, before finally being properly deported to "a life in exile" beyond Moscow's purview. See sybiraks for more information on people exiled to Siberia. Of course in this system and in modern China's analogous Laogai Archipelago
Laogai

Laogai , the abbreviation for L?od?ng Gaiz?o , which means "reform through labor," is a slogan of the China criminal justice and has been used to refer to the use of Penal labour and prison farms in the People's Republic of China ....
 there is not much difference between "internal exile" and simple Incarceration
Incarceration

Incarceration is the detention of a person in jail or prison. People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime....
.

Personal Exile in Literature

Dante
Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florence poet of the Middle Ages. His Magnum opus, the Divine Comedy , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature....
 describes the pain of exile in The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy , written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature....
:

«. . . Tu lascerai ogne cosa diletta
più caramente; e questo è quello strale
che l'arco de lo essilio pria saetta.
Tu proverai sì come sa di sale
lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle
lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale . . .»


". . . You will leave everything you love most:
this is the arrow that the bow of exile
shoots first. You will know how salty
another's bread tastes and how hard it
is to ascend and descend
another's stairs . . ."


Paradiso XVII: 55-60


Exile has been softened, to some extent, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as exiles have received welcome in other countries and have either created new communities within those countries or, less frequently, returned to their homeland
Homeland

A homeland is the concept of the territory to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with —the country in which a particular nationality began....
s following the demise of the regime that exiled them.

Government in exile


During a foreign occupation
Military occupation

Belligerent military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a belligerent....
 or after a coup d'etat
Coup d'état

A coup d??tat , often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a part of the state establishment – usually the military – to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government....
, a government in exile of a such afflicted country may be established abroad. One of the most well-known instances of this is the Central Tibetan Administration
Central Tibetan Administration

The Central Tibetan Administration , officially the Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a government in exile headed by Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai Lama, which claims to be the rightful and legitimate government of Tibet....
, a government in exile led by the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is a lineage of religious leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and was the political leader of Lhasa-based Tibetan government between the 17th century and 1959....
 in India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, who claims to be the legitimate ruler of the historical Tibet
Tibet

Tibet is a Tibetan Plateau in Asia, north of the Himalayas, and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people and its related ethnic groups. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres , it is the highest region on Earth and has in recent decades increasingly been referred to as the "Roof of the World"....
?. Another example was the Free French government of Charles De Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle

Charles Andr? Joseph Marie de Gaulle , , was a French people general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President of France from 1959 to 1969....
 during World War II.

Nation in exile


When large groups, or occasionally a whole people or nation is exiled, it can be said that this nation is in exile, or Diaspora
Diaspora

The term diaspora refers to the movement of any population sharing common ethnicity identity who were either forced to leave or voluntarily left their Settler territory, and became residents in areas often far removed from the former....
. Nations that have been in exile for substantial periods include the Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s, who were deported by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon in 597 BC and again in the years following the destruction of the second Temple in Jerusalem
Temple in Jerusalem

The Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple , refers to a series of structures located on the Temple Mount in the old city of Jerusalem. Historically, two temples were built at this location, and a The Third Temple features in Jewish eschatology....
 in the year AD 70. After the partitions of Poland
Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth....
 in the late 18th century, and following the uprisings (like Kosciuszko Uprising
Kosciuszko Uprising

The Kosciuszko Uprising was an rebellion led by Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Poland and Lithuania in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate Poland and Lithuania of Russian Empire influence after the Second Partition of Poland and the creation of the Confederation of Targowica....
, November Uprising and January Uprising) against the partitioning powers (Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
, Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
 and Austro-Hungary), many Poles have chosen - or been forced - to go into exile, forming large diasporas (known as Polonia
Polonia

Polonia, the name for Poland in Latin and many other languages, refers in modern Polish language to the Polish diaspora: Polish people who live outside the country's borders....
), especially in France and the United States.The entire population of Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars

Crimean Tatars or Crimeans are a Turkic peoples ethnic group originally residing in Crimea. They speak the Crimean Tatar language. They are not to be confused with the Volga Tatars....
 (200,000) that remained in their homeland Crimea
Crimea

Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name....
 was exiled on 18 May 1944 to Central Asia as a form of ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism referring to the persecution through imprisonment, expulsion, or killing of members of an ethnic minority by a majority to achieve ethnic homogeneity in majority-controlled territory....
 and collective punishment
Collective punishment

Collective punishment is the punishment of a group of people as a result of the behaviour of one or more other individuals or groups. The punished group may often have no direct association with the other individuals or groups, or direct control over their actions....
 on false accusations. At Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is the largest atoll, in terms of land area, in Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The island is located in the Indian Ocean, about 1,600 km south of the southern coast of India....
, between 1967 and 1973 the British Government forcibly removed some 2,000 Chagossian resident islanders to make way for a military base
Military base

A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations....
 today jointly operated by the US and UK.

Tax exile


A wealthy citizen who departs from a former abode for a lower tax jurisdiction (a "tax haven
Tax haven

A tax haven is a place where certain taxes are levied at a low rate or not at all.Individuals and/or firms can find it attractive to move themselves to areas with lower tax rates....
") in order to reduce his/her tax burden is termed a tax exile.

Exile in Greek tragedy

To wander away from the city-state (the home) is to be exposed without the protection of government (laws), friends and family. In the ancient Greek world, this was seen as a fate worse than death. Euripedes’ Medea
Medea

Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
–because of her actions (both in Iolcus and Corinth)-made herself and her family (including Jason) exiles in Corinth. She talks of her exiled state in Corinth: 'I, a desolate woman without a city... no relative at all'. Jason justifies his marriage, to a Corinth royal family member, as an attempt to better this situation: 'When I moved here from the land of Iolkos... what happier godsend could I have found than to marry the king's daughter, poor exile that I was... that I should bring up our children in a manner worthy of my house, and producing brothers to my children by you, I should place them all on level footing'.

The tutor in Medea
Medea

Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
 further reminds us of how selfish men are. Euripides likens all women's position to exile; in their having to leave home to serve their husbands. So Medea was doubly in exile, both in the ordinary sense, as a non-Greek foreigner, and as a woman. In the same speech, Medea
Medea

Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
 talks of her status as 'a foreigner [falling] in the city['s ways]' and, on being married, 'we come to new behaviour, new customs'.

The theme of exile also appears in Euripedes The Bacchae
The Bacchae

The Bacchae is an Classical Greece tragedy by the Classical Athens playwright Euripides. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BCE as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis, and which Euripides' son or nephew probably directed....
 when Dionysus
Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
 sends Agave
Agave

Agave is a succulent plant plant of a large botanical genus of the same name, belonging to the family Agavaceae....
 and her sisters into exile. Dionysus
Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
: 'With your sisters you shall live in exile' and later Agave
Agave

Agave is a succulent plant plant of a large botanical genus of the same name, belonging to the family Agavaceae....
 laments: 'Farewell my city…show us the way Asian women, show us the way to bitter exile'.

From the Bacchae
The Bacchae

The Bacchae is an Classical Greece tragedy by the Classical Athens playwright Euripides. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BCE as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis, and which Euripides' son or nephew probably directed....
:

Dionysus
Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
:

All foreign lands now dance to his [Dionysus's] drum.

Pentheus
Pentheus

In Greek mythology, Pentheus was a king of Thebes, Greece, son of the strongest of the Spartes, Echion, and of Agave , daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, and the goddess Harmonia....
:

That is why they are foreign and we're not.

Notable people who have been in exile

  • Assata Shakur
    Assata Shakur

    Assata Olugbala Shakur is an African-American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army . Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was accused of several crimes, of which she would never be convicted, and made the subject of a multi-state manhunt....
     is a BLA activist who escaped from prison in the US in 1979 and has been in exile in Cuba since 1984.
  • Julia the Elder
    Julia the Elder

    Julia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only natural child of Augustus....
    , daughter of Augustus and exiled by him from Rome until her death (2 to 14 or 15).
  • Seneca the Younger
    Seneca the Younger

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Ancient Rome Stoicism philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature....
    , exiled from Rome 41-49 by Caligula
    Caligula

    Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
  • Charlie Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
    , in exile from the United States 1952-1972.
  • The 14th Dalai Lama
    Dalai Lama

    The Dalai Lama is a lineage of religious leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and was the political leader of Lhasa-based Tibetan government between the 17th century and 1959....
    , Tenzin Gyatso self-exiled to India from Tibet in 1959.
  • Pablo Neruda
    Pablo Neruda

    Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftal? Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical" occupation....
    , 1948-1952.
  • Bahadur Shah Zafar, last Mughal
    Mughal Empire

    The Mughal Empire was a Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century....
     King exiled to Rangoon after 1857.
  • Wajid Ali Shah
    Wajid Ali Shah

    Wajid Ali Shah was the tenth and last nawab of the princely kingdom of Awadh in present day Uttar Pradesh in India. He ascended the throne of Awadh in 1847 and ruled for nine years....
    , last King of Awadh
    Awadh

    For the Oudh tree, see agarwood.Awadh , also known in various British historical texts as Oudh, Oundh, or Oude, is a region in the centre of the modern Indian states and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh, which was before Independence Day known as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh....
     exiled to Calcutta.
  • Abd el-Krim
    Abd el-Krim

    Abd el-Krim...
    , the Rif
    Rif

    The Rif is a mainly mountainous region of northern Morocco, stretching from Cape Spartel and Tangier in the west to Ras Kebdana and the Moulouya River in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the river of Ouargha in the south....
    fian guerilla leader, exiled from Morocco
    Morocco

    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
     to the island of Réunion
    Reunion

    Reunion may refer to:...
     (a French territory).
  • Manuel Altolaguirre
    Manuel Altolaguirre

    Manuel Altolaguirre was a Spanish people poet, an editor, publisher, and printer of poetry, and a member of the Generation of '27....
    , exiled from Spain, to Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
     and Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
    .
  • Michel Aoun
    Michel Aoun

    Michel Naim Aoun is a former Lebanese people Military of Lebanon commander and politician. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he served as List of Prime Ministers of Lebanon and acting List of Presidents of Lebanon of one of two rival governments that contended for power....
    , exiled from Lebanon
    Lebanon

    Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
    , to France, returned in May 2005
  • Reinaldo Arenas
    Reinaldo Arenas

    Reinaldo Arenas was a Cubans poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the Cuban Revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Politics of Cuba....
     exiled from Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
    , to United States
  • Nawaz Sharif
    Nawaz Sharif

    Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, better known as just Nawaz Sharif, is a Pakistani politician and businessman. He was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms, the first from November 1, 1990 to July 18, 1993 and the second from February 17, 1997 to October 12, 1999....
     exiled from Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
    , to Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
     and then moved to England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
     and some other countries.
  • Muhammad
    Muhammad

    Muhammad Patronymic#Arabic Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib , is the founder of the Major religious groups of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as a Rasul and prophet of , the last and the greatest law-bearer in a series of prophets....
    (SAAS) exiled from Mecca in 622 to Medina
    Medina

    Medina is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province. It is the second holiest city in Islam, and the burial place of the Prophet Muhammad....
    . Returned to Mecca
    Mecca

    Mecca , also spelled Makkah , Makka is a city in Saudi Arabia. Home to the Masjid al-Haram, it is the holy city in Islam and plays an important role in the faith....
     8 years later.
  • Mirza Tahir Ahmad
    Mirza Tahir Ahmad

    Mirza Tahir Ahmad was Khalifatul Masih IV., head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He was elected to this office in 1982, the day after the death of his predecessor, Mirza Nasir Ahmad....
     4th Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
    Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

    file:Liwa-e-ahmadiyya 1-2.pngfile:Baitul Futuh.jpgThe Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is the larger community of the two arising from the Ahmadiyya founded in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian ....
    , exiled from Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
     in 1984, died in London in 2003
  • Shahbaz Sharif
    Shahbaz Sharif

    Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif also known as Shahbaz Sharif is a well known Pakistani politician and President of Pakistan Muslim League . He is the brother of Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan....
     exiled from Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
    , to Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
    .
  • Aloysius Ambrozic
  • Regent of Hungary, Miklós Horthy
    Miklós Horthy

    Mikl?s Horthy de Baia Mare was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the Hungary between the two world wars and throughout most of World War II, serving from March 1, 1920, to October 15, 1944....
     exiled Cascais
    Cascais

    Cascais is a coastal town 30 kilometres west of Lisbon, with about 35,000 residents in the town. It is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the richest municipalities in Portugal....
    , Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  • Umberto II, King of Italy
    King of Italy

    King of Italy is a title adopted by many rulers of the Italian peninsula after the fall of the Roman Empire. Until 1870, however, no ?King of Italy? ruled the whole peninsula, though some pretended to such authority....
     exiled to Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide
    Jean-Bertrand Aristide

    Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a former Roman Catholicism priest who was List of Presidents of Haiti in 1991, again from 1994 to 1996, and then from 2001 to 2004....
    , exiled from Haiti
    Haiti

    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
    , to Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
     and United States (1990-1994), and then to Central African Republic
    Central African Republic

    The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the east, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west....
     and South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
     (2004-present)
  • Miguel Ángel Asturias
    Miguel Ángel Asturias

    Miguel ?ngel Asturias Rosales was a Nobel Prize?winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat. Asturias helped establish Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream Western culture, and at the same time drew attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala....
     exiled from Guatemala
    Guatemala

    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
     to France
  • Francisco Ayala
    Francisco Ayala

    Francisco Ayala may refer to:* Francisco Ayala Spanish novelist* Francisco J. Ayala , Spanish-American biologist and philosopher...
    , exiled from Spain to Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
  • Michel Bakunin, fled from Russia
  • Emperor Bao Dai
    Bao Dai

    B?o ??i was the 13th and last ruler of the Nguyen dynasty. He served as Emperor of Vietnam from 1926 until 1945 and as head of state of the State of Vietnam from 1949 until 1955....
     of Vietnam
  • Crown Prince Bao Long of Vietnam
  • Saint Thomas à Becket, fled to France
  • Gioconda Belli
    Gioconda Belli

    Gioconda Belli is an author, novelist and renowned Nicaraguan poet. She was designated among the 100 most important poets during the 20th century...
    , exiled from Nicaragua
    Nicaragua

    Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
    , to Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Napoleon I
    Napoleon I of France

    Napoleon Bonaparte later known as Emperor Napoleon I, was a military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century....
     exiled from France to Elba
    Elba

    Elba is an island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino. It is the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, and the third largest List of islands of Italy after Sicily and Sardinia....
     and, later, St Helena
  • Napoleon III went into exile in England.
  • King Kigeli V of Rwanda
    King Kigeli V of Rwanda

    King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa was the ruling Monarch of Rwanda from 1959 to 1961. He was born in Kamembe, Rwanda. His Christian name is Jean-Baptiste....
     exiled from Rwanda
    Rwanda

    The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
     to Uganda
    Uganda

    The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
     and, later, received political asylum to live in the United States
  • Andrej Bajuk
    Andrej Bajuk

    Andrej Bajuk, also known in Spanish language as Andr?s Bajuk is a Slovenian politician and economist.Bajuk was born in Nazi Germany-occupied Ljubljana during World War II, in a family of intellectuals....
  • Willy Brandt
    Willy Brandt

    Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm , was a Germany politician, Chancellor of Germany of West Germany 1969–1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1964–1987....
     exiled to Norway
    Norway

    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
     and Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
    , during the Nazi era
  • Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht

    was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
  • Breyten Breytenbach
    Breyten Breytenbach

    Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and Painting with France citizenship....
  • Joseph Brodsky
    Joseph Brodsky

    Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize in Literature. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1991....
    , exiled from Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
     to United States
  • Lord Byron
    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron

    George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron Royal Society was a United Kingdom poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and...
    , self-exiled from United Kingdom, to Italy and Ottoman Empire
    Ottoman Empire

    The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
  • Pau Casals, self-exiled during the Spanish Civil War
    Spanish Civil War

    The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
    , vowing not to return before democracy was restored in Spain. He died in exile, in 1973. Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco

    Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Te?dulo Franco y Bahamonde, Salgado y Pardo de Andrade , commonly known as Francisco Franco or Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was the dictator and Head of State of Spain from October 1936, and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in 1975....
     died in 1975, restoring the monarchy, which became constitutional by degrees.
  • Alejo Carpentier
    Alejo Carpentier

    Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous Latin American Boom....
    , exiled from Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
     to Haiti
    Haiti

    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
     and Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
  • Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin

    Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
    , exiled from Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
     to France
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, exiled in 58 BC in a political controversy that involved his execution of six members of a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic
    Roman Republic

    The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
    . He was recalled a year later to cheering crowds.
  • El Cid
    El Cid

    Rodrigo D?az de Vivar , known as El Cid Campeador, was a Kingdom of Castile nobleman, a gifted military leader and diplomat who, after being exiled, conquered and governed the city of Valencia ....
    , banned from Castile
    Kingdom of Castile

    Kingdom of Castile was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. It emerged as a political autonomous entity in the 9th century. It was called County of Castile and was held in vassalage from the Kingdom of Le?n....
    , served other Iberian kings ending with the conquest of Valencia
    Kingdom of Valencia

    The Christian Kingdom of Valencia , located in the Eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon....
  • Dante Alighieri
    Dante Alighieri

    Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florence poet of the Middle Ages. His Magnum opus, the Divine Comedy , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature....
    , Medieval Itialian poet and author of the Divine Comedy, Sentenced to two years of Exile and forced to pay a fine when the Black Guelfs took control of Florence. However Dante could not pay his fine because he was staying at Rome at the request of Pope Boniface VIII
    Pope Boniface VIII

    Pope Boniface VIII , born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303....
     and was considered to be an absconder and sentenced to permanent exile.
  • Nadia Comaneci
    Nadia Comaneci

    Nadia Elena Comaneci is a Romanian gymnastics, winner of five Olympic Games gold medals, and the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event....
    , famous Romanian gymnast, self-exiled to United States
  • Lluís Companys, exiled from Catalonia
    Catalonia

    Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
    , Spain to France in 1939 after the Spanish Civil War
    Spanish Civil War

    The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
  • Gustave Courbet
    Gustave Courbet

    Jean D?sir? Gustave Courbet was a France Painting who led the realism movement in 19th-century French painting....
    , French painter, died in political exile from France
  • Celia Cruz
    Celia Cruz

    Celia Cruz was a Cuban Salsa music singer, and was one of the most successful Salsa performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name....
    , exiled from Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
     to United States
  • Humberto Delgado
    Humberto Delgado

    Humberto da Silva Delgado, Order of the Freedom, Pronunciation. , was a General of the Portugal Air Force and politician. He was the son of Joaquim Delgado and wife Maria do ? Pereira and had three younger sisters, Deolinda, Aida and L?dia....
    , exiled from Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
     to Brazil
    Brazil

    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
     and Algeria
    Algeria

    Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
  • Porfirio Díaz
    Porfirio Díaz

    Jos? de la Cruz Porfirio D?az Mori was a Mexico politician who would later become the President of Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911, and one of the most controversial figures of the country....
    , exiled from Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
     to France
  • Ariel Dorfman
    Ariel Dorfman

    File:DorfmanA1.jpgAriel Dorfman is a Chilean-United States novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985....
    , exiled from Chile
    Chile

    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
    , to United States
  • Du Fu
    Du Fu

    Du Fu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty.Along with Li Bai , he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.His own greatest ambition was to serve his country as a successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the necessary accommodations....
  • Jean-Claude Duvalier
    Jean-Claude Duvalier

    Jean-Claude Duvalier succeeded his father, Fran?ois Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti from his father's death in 1971 until his overthrow by a popular uprising in 1986....
    , exiled form Haiti
    Haiti

    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
     to France
  • Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
     self-exiled from Germany to the United States
  • Farinelli
    Farinelli

    File:Farinelli engraving.jpgFarinelli , was the stage name of Carlo Maria Broschi, one of the most famous Italy contralto and soprano castrato singers of the 18th century....
     self exiled from Italy to Spain
  • Lion Feuchtwanger
    Lion Feuchtwanger

    Lion Feuchtwanger was a Germany-Jewish novelist and playwright....
    ,
  • Sigmund Freud
    Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
     self exiled from Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
     to United Kingdom
  • Alberto Fujimori
    Alberto Fujimori

    Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori is a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru from July 28, 1990 to November 17, 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of authoritarianism and human rights violations....
    , exiled from Peru
    Peru

    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
     to Japan
  • Eduardo Galeano
    Eduardo Galeano

    Eduardo Hughes Galeano is an Uruguayan journalism, writer and novelist. His books have been translation into many languages. His works transcend orthodox genres, combining fiction, journalism, politics analysis, and history....
    , exiled from Uruguay
    Uruguay

    Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
     to Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
     and Spain
  • Garibaldi
    Giuseppe Garibaldi

    Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italians military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and had to flee Italy after a failed insurrection....
     exiled to South America
  • Francisco de Goya exiled to Bordeaux
    Bordeaux

    is a Port city on the Garonne in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its aire urbaine at a 2008 estimate. It is the Capital of the Aquitaine regions of France, as well as the Prefectures in France of the Gironde Departments of France....
     as afrancesado
    Afrancesado

    Afrancesado was the term used to denote Spain and Portugal partisans of Age of Enlightenment ideas, Liberalism, or the French Revolution, who were supporters of the Peninsular War and of the First French Empire....
  • Jorge Guillén
    Jorge Guillén

    Jorge Guill?n y ?lvarez was a Spain poet, a member of the Generation of '27....
  • Heinrich Heine
    Heinrich Heine

    Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German literature German Romanticism poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder by German composers....
  • Victor Hugo
    Victor Hugo

    Victor-Marie Hugo was a France poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romanticism movement in France....
     exiled from France to the Channel Islands
    Channel Islands

    The Channel Islands are a group of islands in the English Channel, off the France coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey....
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez
    Juan Ramón Jiménez

    Juan Ram?n Jim?nez Mantec?n was a Spain List of poets, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. One of Jim?nez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of "pure poetry."...
    , fled to United States, Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
    , and finally to Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
  • Arthur Koestler
    Arthur Koestler

    Arthur Koestler Order of the British Empire was a Jewish-Hungary polymath author who became a naturalized United Kingdom subject....
  • Kim Dae-jung
  • Idi Amin
    Idi Amin

    Idi Amin Dada , commonly known as Idi Amin, was a Ugandan Military dictatorship and the President of Uganda of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colony regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and advanced to the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army....
    , exiled to Libya
    Libya

    Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
    , and Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
     until his death.
  • Konstantinos Karamanlis
  • Ruhollah Khomeini
    Ruhollah Khomeini

    Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian religious leader and scholar, politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Iranian monarchy of Iran....
    , exiled from Iran to Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    , then exiled from Turkey to Iraq
    Iraq

    Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
    . Later exiled from Iraq to France.
  • Pavel Kohout
    Pavel Kohout

    Pavel Kohout is a Czech people and Austrians novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in 1970s until he was expelled to Austria....
  • Milan Komar
    Milan Komar

    Milan Komar, also known as Emilio Komar was a Argentines of Slovene descent Roman Catholic Church philosopher and essayist....
  • Jan Amos Komenský
  • Tadeusz Kosciuszko
    Tadeusz Kosciuszko

    Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko of Roch III Coat of Arms was a Poland military leader who is regarded as a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States....
  • Lajos Kossuth
    Lajos Kossuth

    Lajos Kossuth was a Hungary lawyer, politician and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849. He was widely honored during his lifetime, including in the United Kingdom and the United States, as a freedom fighter....
  • Prince Norodom Sihanouk
    Norodom Sihanouk

    King Norodom Sihanouk Khmer alphabet#Style wasthe King of Cambodia until his abdication on October 7, 2004. He is now "King-Father of Cambodia," a position in which he retains many of his former responsibilities as constitutional King....
    , exiled from Cambodia
    Cambodia

    The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 13 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh....
     to China and North Korea
    North Korea

    North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , is a state in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula....
     twice.
  • Peter Kropotkin
    Peter Kropotkin

    name= Peter Kropotkin|image = Kropotkin Nadar.jpg|image_size =|caption = Kropotkin, by Nadar |birth_date = |birth_place = Moscow, Russia...
  • Lenin self-exiled to Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
  • Lotte Lehmann
    Lotte Lehmann

    Lotte Lehmann was a Germany soprano opera and Lieder singer who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss; the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest role....
  • Félix Lope de Vega
    Lope de Vega

    Lope de Vega was a Spain Spanish Baroque literature playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish language letters is second only to that of Miguel de Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled:...
     y Carpio (Spain's equivalent to Shakespeare) exiled 8 years from Castille for slander.
  • Fernão Lopez
    Fernão Lopez

    Fern?o Lopes was the first known permanent inhabitant of the remote Island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, an island that later became famous as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte exile and death....
     self-exile to Saint Helena
    Saint Helena

    Saint Helena , named after Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcano origin and a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean....
  • La Lupe
    La Lupe

    La Lupe, or La Yiyiyi, born Guadalupe Victoria Yol? Raymond was a Cuban singer of several musical genres: boleros, guarachas and latin soul in particular....
    , to Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
     and United States
  • Heinrich Mann
    Heinrich Mann

    Luiz Heinrich Mann was a Germany novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933....
     self-exile to Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
     and to the United States
  • Thomas Mann
    Thomas Mann

    Paul Thomas Mann was a German literature, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, known for his series of highly symbolic and irony epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual....
     self-exile to Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
     and to the United States, moved back to Switzerland
  • Ferdinand Marcos
    Ferdinand Marcos

    Ferdinand Emmanuel Edral?n Marcos was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate ....
     self-exiled from the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
     to Hawaii
    Hawaii

    File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
  • Karl Marx
    Karl Marx

    Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
     self-exiled from Germany to Great Britain
  • José Martí
    José Martí

    Jos? Juli?n Mart? P?rez is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist....
  • Giuseppe Mazzini
    Giuseppe Mazzini

    Giuseppe Mazzini , the "Soul of Italy," was an Italian patriot, philosopher and politician. His efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century....
  • Rigoberta Menchú
    Rigoberta Menchú

    Rigoberta Mench? Tum is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the Quich?-Maya people ethnic group. Mench? has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War , and to promoting indigenous rights in the country....
    , exiled from Guatemala
    Guatemala

    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
    , to Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov
    Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov

    Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov was a Russian statesman, whose official titles included Generalissimo, Prince of the Russian Empire and Duke of Ingria ....
  • Ezekiel Mphahlele
    Ezekiel Mphahlele

    Es'kia Mphahlele was a South African writer, academic, arts activist and Afrikan Humanist. Named Ezekiel at birth, he changed his name to Es'kia in 1977....
    , exiled from South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
     to Kenya
    Kenya

    The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
    , Zambia
    Zambia

    The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
     and United States
  • Adam Mickiewicz
    Adam Mickiewicz

    Adam Bernard Mickiewicz is generally regarded as the greatest Polish Romanticism poet. He ranks as one of Poland's Three Bards alongside Zygmunt Krasinski and Juliusz Slowacki....
  • Mobutu Sese Seko
    Mobutu Sese Seko

    Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga , commonly known as Mobutu, or Mobutu Sese Seko , born Joseph-D?sir? Mobutu, was the Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo of Zaire for 32 years after deposing Joseph Kasavubu....
  • Mireya Moscoso
    Mireya Moscoso

    Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodr?guez de Arias was the List of Presidents of Panama of Panama from 1999 to 2004, representing the Paname?ista Party. She was Panama's first female president....
    , fled to Spain
  • Kwame Nkrumah
    Kwame Nkrumah

    Kwame Nkrumah , was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast , from 1952 to 1966....
     exiled from Ghana
    Ghana

    The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders C?te d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south....
     to Guinea
    Guinea

    Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. The country's current population is estimated at 10,211,437 ....
  • Juan Carlos Onetti
    Juan Carlos Onetti

    Juan Carlos Onetti was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.A high school drop-out, Onetti's first novel, El pozo, published in 1939, met with his close friends' immediate acclaim, as well as from some writers and journalists of his time....
     exiled from Uruguay
    Uruguay

    Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
     to Spain until his death
  • Ovid
    Ovid

    Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman Empire poet known as Ovid to the English language-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and Roman mythology transformation....
  • Shahrnush Parsipur
    Shahrnush Parsipur

    Shahrnush Parsipur is an Iranian novelist. She is the daughter of an attorney in the Iranian Justice Ministry originally from Shiraz....
    , exiled from Iran
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
     to the United States of America
  • Víctor Paz Estenssoro
    Víctor Paz Estenssoro

    ?ngel V?ctor Paz Estenssoro was a politician and former president of Bolivia. He ran for president 8 times , winning in 1951, 1960, 1964, and 1985....
    , exiled from Bolivia
    Bolivia

    The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
     to Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
    , Perú
    Peru

    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  • Carlos Andrés Pérez
    Carlos Andrés Pérez

    Carlos Andr?s P?rez Rodr?guez , best known as CAP and often referred to as "El Gocho" , was President of Venezuela of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993....
    , exiled from Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
    , to Colombia
    Colombia

    Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
    , Costa Rica
    Costa Rica

    Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
    , and United States
  • Marcos Pérez Jiménez
    Marcos Pérez Jiménez

    Marcos Evangelista P?rez Jim?nez was a soldier and Presidents of Venezuela of Venezuela from 1952 to 1958....
    , exiled from Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
     to United States and Spain
  • Juan Perón
    Juan Perón

    Juan Domingo Per?n was an Argentina general and politician, elected three times as President of Argentina, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency....
     exiled from Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
     to Paraguay
    Paraguay

    Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....
     and Spain
  • Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse

    Saint-John Perse was a France poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."...
     exiled from Vichy France
    Vichy France

    Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. This government, which succeeded the French Third Republic, officially called itself the French State , in contrast with the previous designation, "French Republic." Marshal of France Philippe P?tain pro...
     to United States
  • Bob Powell
    Bob Powell

    Bob Powell is a United States composer.In 2004 Bob released the Bob Powell Anthology as open source audio on the Internet.Discography also includes Evil Flower Volume One, Dreamscape Of The Falcon, Pussywillow Patch, Pretzel Head, Room 417, Leftover Noodles and Los Angeles....
  • Ferenc Puskás
    Ferenc Puskás

    Ferenc Pusk?s was a legendary Hungarian people football and Coach and is regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time. He scored a remarkable 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary national football team, and 514 goals in 529 matches in the Hungarian League and La Liga leagues....
     from Hungary to Spain
  • Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre
    Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre

    V?ctor Ra?l Haya de la Torre was a Peruvian political leader who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance political movement....
    , fled to Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Franc Rode
  • Romain Rolland
    Romain Rolland

    Romain Rolland was a France dramatist, essayist, art historian, mystic and pacifist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915....
    , fled to Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
  • Wilhelm Röpke
    Wilhelm Röpke

    Wilhelm R?pke was one of the most important spiritual fathers of the German social market economy.For R?pke , rights, moral habits , and social norms and values were decisive elements with which not the market, but the state and central bank continually need to be concerned....
     fled Germany during Nazi rule
  • Prince Sauryavong Savang
    Sauryavong Savang

    Prince Sauryavong Savang is the youngest son of King Savang Vatthana of Laos, who was murdered by Communists. In 1965, he married Princess Dalavan and they have four children, Sthira Sauryavong, Dayavant Sauryavong, Balavant Sauryavong, and Krishnajina Sauryavong....
    , lives in exile in Paris, France
  • Crown Prince Soulivong Savang
    Soulivong Savang

    Crown Prince Soulivong Savang , grandson of the last King of Laos Savang Vatthana, is the pretender to the Lao throne. Laos was a constitutional monarchy until 1975, when the communist Pathet Lao seized control of the nation and began genocide and human rights violations of the Royal Lao family as a monarchy, and the indigenous Hmong people...
    , lives in exile in Paris, France
  • Jorge Semprún
    Jorge Semprún

    Jorge de Sempr?n y Maura is a Spanish Lists of authors and politics. His mother Susana Maura y Gamazo was a daughter of Antonio Maura....
    , exiled from Spain, to France
  • Costas Simitis
    Costas Simitis

    Konstantinos Simitis , usually referred to as Costas Simitis or Kostas Simitis, was Prime Minister of Greece and leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement from 1996 to 2004....
    , exiled from Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    , to Germany
  • Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma
    Mangkra Souvannaphouma

    Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma of the Kingdom of Laos is the son of Prince Khampeng Souvannaphouma....
    , lives in exile in Paris, France
  • Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh
    Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh

    Nguy?n B?u Ch?nh...
     of Vietnam
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
    , lives in exile in the United States
  • Prince Hso Khan Pha
    Hso Khan Pha

    His Royal Highness Prince Hso Khan Pha of Yawnghwe, FIASR is a Consulting Geologist who lives in exile in Canada. He is son of Sao Shwe Thaik Saopha of Yawnghwe and his Mahadevi Sao-nang Hearn Hkam....
     lives in exile in Canada
  • Fernando Savater
    Fernando Savater

    Fernando Fern?ndez-Savater Mart?n is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author.He was an Ethics professor at the University of the Basque Country for over a decade....
  • Benjamin Sehene
    Benjamin Sehene

    Benjamin Sehene is a Rwandan author whose work primarily focuses on questions of identity and the events surrounding the Rwandan genocide. He has spent much of life in Canada and France....
    exiled from Rwanda
    Rwanda

    The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
     to Uganda
    Uganda

    The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
     and, later,to Canada
  • Emperor Amha Selassie I, lived in exile in Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
     and Great Britain and United States.
  • Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
  • Crown Prince Zera Yacob Amha Selassie lived in exile in Djibouti
    Djibouti

    Djibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast....
    , Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    , Great Britain, and United States
  • Juliusz Slowacki
    Juliusz Slowacki

    Juliusz Slowacki was a noted Poles Romantic poet, considered to be one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature. His works often feature elements of Slavic mythology, mysticism, and Orientalism....
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russians novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system, and for these efforts Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974....
     exiled from the Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    , returned after the fall of Communism
    Communism

    Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarianism, classlessness, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general....
  • Mário Soares
    Mário Soares

    M?rio Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, Order of the Tower and Sword, Order of Christ , Order of Liberty, Order of the Elephant , Portugal politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996....
  • Wole Soyinka
    Wole Soyinka

    Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished playwright, as he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African to be so honoured....
  • Alfredo Stroessner
    Alfredo Stroessner

    Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, whose name is also spelled Str?ssner or Str??ner was a Paraguayan military officer and dictator from 1954 to 1989....
     exile from Paraguay
    Paraguay

    Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....
     to Brazil
    Brazil

    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
  • Sun Yat-sen
    Sun Yat-sen

    Sun Yat-sen , also known as Sun Yixian, Sun Wen, Sun Itchisen/Sun Itchiyama and Sun Zhongshan , was a China revolutionary and Politician leader often referred to as the Father of the Nation....
  • Oliver Tambo
    Oliver Tambo

    Oliver Reginald Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress . He was born in Bizana, Eastern Cape in eastern Pondoland in what is now Eastern Cape....
  • Leon Trotsky
    Leon Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronstein , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxism theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin....
    , exiled to Siberia
    Siberia

    Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
    , and later to Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    , France, Norway
    Norway

    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
     and Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • Xiao Qiang
    Xiao Qiang

    Xiao Qiang is the Director of China Internet Project and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley....
    , exiled from China, to United States
  • Miguel de Unamuno
    Miguel de Unamuno

    Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was an essayist, novelist, poetry, theatre and philosopher from Bilbao, Biscay, Spain....
     confined to Fuerteventura
    Fuerteventura

    Fuerteventura, a Spain island, is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. It is situated at 28?20' north, 14?00' west....
    , fled to France.
  • Clement Vallandigham
    Clement Vallandigham

    Clement Laird Vallandigham was an Ohio unionist of the Copperheads faction of anti-war, pro-Confederate Democrats during the American Civil War....
    , exiled to the Confederate States of America
    Confederate States of America

    The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
    , to Bermuda
    Bermuda

    Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1770 kilometres northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1350 kilometres south of Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada....
    , then Canada
  • Caetano Veloso
    Caetano Veloso

    Caetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and activism. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century" and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil....
    , exiled from Brazil
    Brazil

    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
     to United Kingdom
  • Bruno Walter
    Bruno Walter

    Bruno Walter was a Germany-born Conducting and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939....
  • Wilhelm II of Prussia
    Prussia

    Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
     and Germany, exiled from Prussia and Germany to The Netherlands
  • Mohammad Zaher Shah exile from Afghanistan
    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
     to Italy
  • Nicholas I of Montenegro
    Nicholas I of Montenegro

    Nikola I Mirkov Petrovic-Njego? was the only monarch of Kingdom of Montenegro, reigning as king from 1910 to 1918 and as prince from 1860 to 1910....
  • Carlos Salinas de Gortari self-exiled to Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
  • The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor
    Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

    Edward VIII was Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the dominion, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936, following the death of his father, George V of the United Kingdom, until his abdication on 11 December 1936....
    , by virtue of his marriage to Wallis Simpson and his falling-out with the Royal Family
    British Royal Family

    The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in his or her Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realmss, thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family....
     and his brother King George VI
    George VI of the United Kingdom

    George VI was British monarchy and the United Kingdom Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India and the last King of Ireland , and the first Head of the Commonwealth....
    , to France
  • John Calvin
    John Calvin

    John Calvin was an influential French people theology and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism....
    , exiled from Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
     to France, but later let back into Switzerland, due to change in government
  • Hector Gramajo
    Hector Gramajo

    H?ctor Alejandro Gramajo Morales was a general in the Guatemalan Military of Guatemala who served as Ministry of Defence from 1987 to 1990. He also ran unsuccessfully as the Frente de Unidad Nacional's candidate for the President of Guatemala in 1995....
    , fled the United States to avoid facing charges filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act
  • Cesar Vallejo
    César Vallejo

    C?sar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century....
    , fled from Peru
    Peru

    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
     to France in fear of further incarceration by the government. He would spend the rest of his life in France, mainly, Paris.
  • Benazir Bhutto
    Benazir Bhutto

    Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party , a centre-left List of political parties in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim world, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan ....
    , exiled from Pakistan to Dubai
  • Taslima Nasrin
    Taslima Nasrin

    Taslima Nasrin is a Bengali people Bangladeshi ex-Physician turned author, an atheist feminist who describes herself as a secular humanist. She was born Nasreen Jahan Taslima to Rajab Ali and Idul Ara....
    , exiled from Bangladesh
    Bangladesh

    , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south....
     to India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    , then Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
  • Andres Eloy Blanco
    Andrés Eloy Blanco

    Andr?s Eloy Blanco Mea?o was an important Venezuelan poet, a member of the Generaci?n del 28. A politician, was also the founder of Acci?n Democr?tica ....
    , exiled from Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
     to Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
     until his death in 1955.


Fictional characters in exile

  • Yoda
    Yoda

    Yoda is a character and a protagonist in the Star Wars fictional universe, who appears in all of the Media franchise's films except for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope....
     went into self exile after the Great Jedi Purge in Episode III of Star Wars.
  • In Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, after defeating Sir Leopold, the player's party are blamed by Captain Marcello for an attempted assassination of the Lord High Priest, causing High Priest Rolo and the player's party to be subsequently banished to Purgatory
    Purgatory

    Purgatory is the condition or process of purification or temporary punishment in which the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for heaven....
     Island.
  • In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "Star-crossed" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families....
    , Romeo is exiled to Mantua after killing Tybalt.
  • Lord Voldemort
    Lord Voldemort

    Lord Voldemort is a fictional character and the main Antagonist in the Harry Potter novel series written by United Kingdom author J. K. Rowling....
     goes to self exile in Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
     after losing his physical form in Godric's Hollow in 1981.
  • Ender Wiggin
    Ender Wiggin

    Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels , as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow....
     is exiled from Earth after winning the Bugger War in the Orson Scott Card
    Orson Scott Card

    Orson Scott Card is an United States author, critic and public speaking. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction....
     book Ender's Game
    Ender's Game

    Ender's Game is a science fiction novel by United States author Orson Scott Card. The book originated as the novella "Ender's Game ", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact....
    .
  • In the book The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings

    The Lord of the Rings is an Epic poetry high fantasy novel written by Philology J.R.R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work....
     by J. R. R. Tolkien
    J. R. R. Tolkien

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
    , Aragorn
    Aragorn

    Aragorn II is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He is also known as Strider. He is first introduced in The Fellowship of the Ring, and becomes a central character in the story of The Lord of the Rings....
     is the heir in exile to the throne of Gondor
    Gondor

    Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Man in the west of Middle-earth by the end of the Third Age....
    .
  • In the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender
    Avatar: The Last Airbender

    Avatar: The Last Airbender , is an Emmy award-winning Television in the United States animation animated television series that aired for List of Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network....
    , Prince Zuko is exiled from the Fire Nation by his father, and tasked with finding the Avatar.
  • Chancellor Sutler is in self-exile in the film V for Vendetta
    V for Vendetta

    V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd , set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s....
    .
  • In the British sci-fi TV series Doctor Who
    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
    , The Doctor was exiled to Earth by his own people, the Time Lords for interfering in the affairs of other planets. He was also forced to regenerate in order to help conceal his identity. All this happened in the 1969 story The War Games
    The War Games

    The War Games is a list of Doctor Who serials in the United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from April 19 to June 21, 1969....
    . This was the last Doctor Who story to feature Patrick Troughton
    Patrick Troughton

    Patrick George "Pat" Troughton was an England actor most widely known in his role as the Second Doctor incarnation of Doctor in the long running United Kingdom science fiction on television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969....
     as the Doctor. He was eventually forgiven by his own people and allowed to roam the Universe again in the 1972-73 adventure The Three Doctors, by this time starring Jon Pertwee
    Jon Pertwee

    John Devon Roland Pertwee , better known as Jon Pertwee, was an England actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, where he played the Third Doctor of Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge....
     as the Doctor.
  • In the TV series 24
    24 (TV series)

    24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
    , Jack Bauer
    Jack Bauer

    Jack Bauer is the protagonist and anti-hero of the United States television series 24 , in which he has trained and worked in various capacities as a government agent, including US Army Delta Force, LAPD SWAT, CIA, and finally the 24 #Counter Terrorist Unit Los Angeles....
     went into self-exile, after being threatened with being extradited for torture in a Chinese prison camp following the events of Season 4.
  • Oedipus
    Oedipus

    Oedipus was a Greek mythology monarch of Thebes, Greece. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family....
     went into self exile after finding out that he had killed his father and slept with his mother (Sophocles)
  • Medea
    Medea

    Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
     sent herself into exile to follow Jason into Corinth (Euripedes).
  • Agave
    Agave

    Agave is a succulent plant plant of a large botanical genus of the same name, belonging to the family Agavaceae....
     went into self exile after killing her son Pentheus (Euripedes)
  • Thyestes
    Thyestes

    In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops, King of Olympia, Greece, and Hippodamia and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. Thyestes and his twin brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus in their desire for the throne of Olympia, Greece....
     was sent into exile after raping his brother's wife (Aeschylus)
  • Orestes
    Orestes

    Orestes was the son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology; Orestes may also refer to:Drama*Orestes , an Classical Athens tragedy from 408 BCE by Euripides...
     was sent into exile by his mother Clytaemnestra but returned to kill her in the garb of a stranger (Aeschylus)
  • Simba
    Simba

    Simba is a lion character and the protagonist of one of The Walt Disney Company most famous animated feature films, The Lion King. He is the son of Mufasa and Sarabi, nephew of Scar , mate of Nala and father of Kopa and Kiara ....
    , shortly after his father's death went into exile from the Pridelands for much of his childhood and teenage life in The Lion King
    The Lion King

    The Lion King is a American Animation film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, released in theaters on June 15, 1994 by Walt Disney Pictures....
    . He later returns to avenge his father's death and take his rightful place as king of the Pridelands.
  • Jim Halpert
    Jim Halpert

    James "Jim" Halpert is a fictional character in the United States version of the TV series situation comedy The Office , played by John Krasinski....
     of NBC's The Office went into self exile from Dunder Mifflin Scranton and relocated to Stamford when Pam was going to marry Roy.


See also

  • Ban
    Ban (law)

    For the policy on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Banning policy.A ban is, generally, any decree that Prohibitions something.Bans are formed for the prohibition of activities within a certain political territory....
  • Ostracism
    Ostracism

    Ostracism was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which a prominent citizen could be exile from the city-state of Athens for ten years....
  • Deportation
    Deportation

    Deportation generally means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The expulsion of natives is also called banishment, exile, or penal transportation....
  • Penal transportation
    Penal transportation

    Transportation or penal transportation refers to the deportation of convicted criminals to a penal colony, for example by France to Devil's Island and by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and Australia between 1788 and 1868....
  • Refugee
    Refugee

    Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecutionOwing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality,...
  • Right of asylum
    Right of asylum

    Right of asylum is an ancient juridical notion, under which a person persecution for political opinions or religious beliefs in his or her own country may be protected by another sovereignty, a foreign country, or Christian Church sanctuary ....
     (political asylum)
  • Scouts-in-Exile
    Scouts-in-Exile

    Scouts-in-Exile, also referred to as Scouts-in-Exteris, are Scouting and Girl Guides groups formed outside of their native country as a result of war and changes in governments....
  • Marriage
    Marriage

    Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
  • Petalism
    Petalism

    In ancient Syracuse Petalism was a form of banishment similar to ostracism in Athens. In a special vote, citizens wrote on leaves the names of those they wished to banish from public life....