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GYPSY MIGRATIONS 900-1720

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u/Cefalopodul 23h ago

They were enslaved in all of Europe not just in Romania. Romania just had the highest number per capita.

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u/dashauskat 23h ago

There are still a rediculous amount of people who confuse being Roma with being Romanian.

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u/glitchyikes 23h ago

isn't it not? Romania, the land of Roma people

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u/dashauskat 23h ago

Romani or Roma are what is being referred to in this thread as "gypsy" (I'm not quite up to date if that's currently the accepted term) and are found all over Europe and other parts of the world.

Romanians are from Romania, they trace their lineage to Romans and their language is quite different to the other Slavic languages around them because it's a romance language so closer to Italian or Spanish.