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There is a sizable Romani minority in Romania, known as Ţigani in Romanian and, recently, as Rromi, of 621,573 people or 3.3% of the total population (2011 census), although the Council of Europe estimates the figure to be 1.85 million people or 8.32% of the population. [127]
[112] [122] [123] [124] The Council of Europe consider that "Gypsy" or equivalent terms, as well as administrative terms such as "Gens du Voyage" are not in line with European recommendations. [103] In Britain, many Roma proudly identify as "Gypsies", [ 93 ] and, as part of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller grouping, this is the name used to ...
Its population is mixed Bulgarians and Roma Shesti neighborhood Nova Zagora: 10,000 Probuda neighborhood Burgas: 7,277 The majority of today's population is Roma Karmen neighborhood Kazanlak: 7,000 Lozenets neighborhood Stara Zagora: 5,000 Filipovtsi neighborhood gypsy part Sofia: 4,659 ~100% Gradets: village Kotel, Sliven: 3,759 2,970 79.01%
In 2009–2010, a media campaign followed by a parliamentary initiative asked the Romanian Parliament to accept a proposal to revert the official name of country's Roma (adopted in 2000) to Țigan (Gypsy), the traditional and colloquial Romanian name for Romani, to avoid the possible confusion among the international community between the words ...
They travelled around in search of employment and practised traditional professions like chair bottomers, tinsmiths, broom binders, traders, peddlers, artisans, etc. [1] As of 2018, some 30,000–60,000 Travellers live in the Netherlands, [2] most of whom are Catholics living in the south of the country. [3]
Romani people have been recorded in the United Kingdom since at least the early 16th century. There are estimated to be around 225,000 Romani people residing in the UK. This includes the Romanichal, Kale (Welsh Romani), Scottish Lowland Romani and a sizeable population of Roma from Central and Eastern Europe, who immigrated into the UK in the late 1990s/early 2000s and after EU expansion in 2004.
The history of Roma in Greece goes back to the 15th century. The name Gypsy (Gyftos = Γύφτος) sometimes used for the Romani people was first given to them by the Greeks, who supposed them to be Egyptian in origin. [10] Due to their nomadic nature, they are not concentrated in a specific geographical area, but are dispersed all over the ...
At that time, the Roma were not considered vagabonds, but rather "as part of the national mosaic, not as foreign patterns." In medieval Europe, numerous laws and edicts were issued to expel the Roma or forcibly assimilate them in various countries. In 1471, the first anti-Gypsy law was introduced in Lucerne(Switzerland).