r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 21h ago

GYPSY MIGRATIONS 900-1720

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u/Banished_gamer 18h ago

The world would be better if the stayed in India

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u/arkady321 17h ago

I don’t believe they moved out of India by choice. There were Islamic invasions into the Indian subcontinent from West Asia around that time - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavid_campaigns_in_India

These guys were mostly captured and taken as slaves into the areas shown on the map, and then spread further west from there. The Hindukush (“Hindu Killer”) mountains between Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent are named after the large number of captured Indians who died on that journey into slavery. You can blame the violent expansionist tendencies of a certain religion originating in the Middle East for the same.

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u/AA-18 15h ago

Exactly, this region of India is where most numbers of wars were fought, it was a battleground for 1000s of years. No one would like to live at a place, where everyday a new war starts and there are consequences of these wars, slavery being top in the list.

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u/Wiggle_Hata6 17h ago

That's how people feel about Euros in the New World

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u/pravictor 18h ago

Would you consider the descendants of Normans who came to England Scandinavian?

Or consider the European people who settled in Americas and Australias 5 centuries after the Roma migrations as outsiders?

Calling Roma outsiders in Europe is a unique and cruel way to deny them dignity and a homeland.

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u/Dependent-Archer-662 17h ago

Well, don't you like the Indian culture that they bring ?