To the country left vacant by their wholesale deportation he transplanted people from Babylon and other Mesopotamian cities.[161] The descendants of these, mingled with the poorer class of Jews still left there, formed the despised Samaritans of the time of Christ.

The Kingdom of Judah later was despoiled by Nebuchadnezzar of much of its population, which was carried off to Babylon.
This plan of partial deportation and colonization characterized the Roman method of Romanization.

Removal of the conquered from their native environment facilitated the process, while it weakened the spirit and power of revolt.

The Romans met bitter opposition from the mountain tribes when trying to open up the northern passes of the Apennines.
Consequently they removed the Ligurian tribe of the Apuanians, forty-seven thousand in number, far south to Samnium.

When in 15 B.C.
the region of the Rhaetian Alps was joined to the Empire, forty thousand of the inhabitants were transplanted from the mountains to the plain.