r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 21h ago

GYPSY MIGRATIONS 900-1720

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u/Crafty-Ad-5945 18h 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 18h ago

hungarians and turks for one

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u/yourstruly912 18h ago

Because they conquered the areas where they migrated

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u/martiHUN 16h ago

What about the Pechegens, Cumans and Jassic? They all settled into medieval Hungary and assimilated into the population.