In the Jewish diaspora, a Jewish quarter is the area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews. Jewish quarters, like the Jewish ghettos in Europe, were often the outgrowths of segregated ghettos instituted by the surrounding Christian authorities. A Yiddish term for a Jewish quarter or neighborhood is "Di yiddishe gas" ( ), or "The Jewish quarter." While in Ladino, they are known as , meaning "The Jewish quarter". Many European and Middle Eastern cities once had a historical Jewish quarter and some still have it.