 Those settling in Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, Syria, the Lebanon and the Holy Land became the Eastern Sephardim.The Western Sephardim, also known more ambiguously as the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, left Spain and Portugal as New Christians in a steady stream over the course of the next few centuries, and converted back to Judaism once in Holland, England, etc.While the pre-existing Jews of the countries in which they settled (in the Greater Middle East, for example, are called "Mizrahim") are distinct, the term Sephardi as used in "Sephardi cuisine" would refer only to the culinary traditions of those Jews with ancestral origins to the Jews of Spain and Portugal.