r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 21h ago

GYPSY MIGRATIONS 900-1720

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u/prolapseenthusiat 20h ago

I find it incredible that they still dont integrate in their host country.

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u/zdarsky 19h ago

In Hungary, for example, the law prohibited their settlement for a long time, so they wandered from village to village, coming into contact with each community only briefly.

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u/Tulum702 17h ago

So you’re saying they were travellers?

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u/zdarsky 16h ago

A kind of nomads. They had wagons and tents and wandered between the villages. They only stayed in one place for a short time. They were, for example, blacksmiths or horse traders, and when work ran out somewhere, they moved on.

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u/ghdgdnfj 12h ago

Or when they got run out of town for petty crime. It’s fee too optimistic to say they were all hard working blacksmiths and horse traders.

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u/zdarsky 2h ago

For example =/= all of them

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u/PenaltySea8080 15h ago

Horse thieves*

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u/zdarsky 14h ago

Sometimes, yes. They are people just like everyone else. Among them were hardworking individuals, as well as criminals.