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Apr 23, 2015 · Where do Roma come from? Historians think the Roma’s ancestors first arrived in Europe from northern India, through what is now Iran, Armenia and Turkey. They gradually spread their way across the whole of Europe from the 9th century onwards.
e. 1552 woodcut of a Romani family. The Romani people are a distinct ethnic and cultural group of peoples living all across the globe, who share a family of languages and sometimes a traditional nomadic mode of life. [1] Though their exact origins were unclear, [2] recent studies show Kashmir in Northwest India is the most probable point of ...
The Romani language (the source for the appellation “Roma”) is related to Sanskrit. More than a thousand years ago, they began to migrate out of India, heading westward in successive waves. They crossed the Middle East and arrived in continental Europe in the later Middle Ages.
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Aug 12, 2015 · This was the first written account in Western Europe of the people who would come to be known as Gypsies, or Romani. Over the next four centuries, these people, who began their journey in northern India a thousand years prior, would cross every kingdom and principality in Europe.
Sep 10, 2013 · By Chuck Sudetic & Zeljko Jovanovic. The inaugural World Romani Congress in 1971 near London was a meeting of minds bent upon defining a nation whose disparate members have been scattered around the world. The 23 delegates chose the word “Roma” as the official name. They adopted, as the elements of the flag, a red chakra, the sixteen-spoke ...
Aug 19, 2010 · Where did the Roma come from? Roma originated in the Punjab region of northern India as a nomadic people and entered Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries, according to the...
January 25, 2021. Top Image: Romani Family in Germany. Date Unknown. Courtesy of the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team. In the first article in this series I approached the issue of anti-Roma racism and the Third Reich via a long prehistory of Roma in Europe until 1900.
