Taroç family

[3] Following the Alhambra decree of 1492, the majority of the family immigrated to the Ottoman Empire, the Levant and other parts of the Mediterranean and North Africa, adopting the surname Toros.

[6][7] His son Isaac Taroç, inherited his father's estates and increased the family's profits tenfold.

Salomo Taroç was the first to establish a relationship with the ruling monarchs of Catalonia, possibly serving as a court physician for the Crown of Aragon.

The last mention of a member of the family living in Spain before the expulsion of Jews in 1491 is Astruc Taroç II (Abraham Taroç's grandson), who, on July 9, 1492 helped to sell the historic Girona Synagogue, which the family helped to build and fund several hundred years prior.

[13][14] The majority of the family immigrated to Rhodes, later settling in Edirne and Istanbul, where they mostly live up until the present.