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Oct 23, 2013 · The Roma have one of the most dramatic stories in human history, but few people really know their ancient tale of travel, persecution and survival. Here are five intriguing facts about the Romani.
Jan 24, 2023 · Roma People in Serbia. A family of seven, five of which are children, living in a 15 square meters in a run-down building in a mid-sized Serbian town of Krusevac, without elementary conditions for life, such as washing, dressing and even garbage service. This is the sad reality of (too) many Roma people in the Balkans, whose villages are ...
May 29, 2018 · Eight centuries of struggle. Roma have been living in the Serbian lands for centuries, with the first documented mention of the ethnic group in 1348. It was a depressingly grim beginning too, as that mention was of then-Emperor Dušan the Mighty donating a large number of gypsy slaves to Prizren. Serbia was experiencing its ‘glory years’ at ...
Jun 8, 2011 · Across Serbia, RHMs have collected key data on more than 120,000 Roma people – 96,000 of them since the arrival of the new laptops. As a direct result of their work, registration cards have been completed for families in more than 800 Roma settlements, more than 8,000 children have been vaccinated, almost 5,000 Roma women have visited a ...
Balkan Romani. Balkan Roma, Balkaniko Romanes, or Balkan Gypsy is a specific non- Vlax dialect of the Romani language, spoken by groups within the Balkans, which include countries such as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey etc. The Balkan Romani language is typically an oral language.
There have been Romani people in Croatia for more than 600 years and they are concentrated mostly in the northern regions of the country. A considerable number of Romani refugees in Croatia are from the ethnic conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [2] There are more than 120 Romani minority NGOs in Croatia. [3]
(The Romani borrowed words from people they met in their travels.) In Iran, they split into two groups. One group went south, through Syria to northern Africa and Greece. The other group went north through Armenia before arriving in what is today Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia. Many Romani stayed in these
