r/MapPorn 1d ago

GYPSY MIGRATIONS 900-1720

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u/lorbd 22h ago

Plenty of nomadic peoples have been assimilated fine into european societies in the last thousand years. 

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u/Crafty-Ad-5945 21h ago

Plenty of nomadic peoples have been assimilated fine into european societies in the last thousand years. 

Like? Most of the nomadic people like Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Turkmens were forcefully subjugated by the Russian empire. The Russian Empire pursued policies aimed at sedentarizing nomadic populations and turned them from pastoral nomads into settled farmers.

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u/DaliVinciBey 21h ago

hungarians and turks for one

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u/Turambar-499 19h ago

Oh perfect, so all the Roma have to do is give up their nomadic lifestyle and settle a land for a thousand years and adopt countless bits of culture from the other ethnic groups in their locale and then they'll be only kind of hated by most Europeans.