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  2. Romani Americans - Wikipedia

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    Most Romani Americans live in the United States's biggest cities, where the greatest economic opportunities exist. Romani Americans practice many different religions, usually based on the version of Christianity common in their country of origin, but fundamentalist Christian denominations have been growing in popularity among them.

  3. Romani people - Wikipedia

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    The most common paternal haplogroup among Roma is the South Asian Y-chromosome H, most commonly found among Dravidian peoples. [ 194 ] A full genome autosomal DNA study on 186 Roma samples from Europe in 2019 found that modern Romani people are characterized by a common south Asian origin and a complex admixture from Balkan , Middle East, and ...

  4. Romani diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Gypsies at Balatonlelle by Béla Iványi-Grünwald, 1935 In the 2011 census, 315,583 people called themselves Roma. [ 124 ] Various estimations put the number of Roma people to be between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people, or 8–10% of Hungary's population.

  5. List of Romani people - Wikipedia

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    He is accredited with being the pioneer of sinti jazz and music in Germany and directly or indirectly inspired many of the succeeding generation of gypsy jazz players in that country, as well as preserving on record a great many folkloric and gypsy compositions for future generations. Selim Sesler – Turkish virtuoso

  6. List of Romani settlements - Wikipedia

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    gypsy part Sofia: 4,659 ~100% Gradets: village Kotel, Sliven: 3,759 2,970 79.01% Gradets is probably the largest Roma village in the world Bukovlak: village Pleven, Pleven: 3,620 2,052 56.69% Second largest Roma village in Bulgaria Varbitsa: town Varbitsa, Shumen: 3,325 1,841 55.37% Varbitsa is the only town (urban settlement) in Bulgaria with ...

  7. Names of the Romani people - Wikipedia

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    The English term gypsy or gipsy [16] is commonly used to indicate Romani people, [17] and use of the word gipsy in modern-day English is pervasive (and is a legal term under English law—see below), and some Romani organizations use it in their own organizational names, particularly in the United Kingdom.

  8. Romani people in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Hungarian-Slovak Roma in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tells you about the world "Gypsy" and Hungarian Slovak Gypsies. An 80 page published study. Romani Realities in the United States - Harvard University; Gypsy Violins Hungarian Slovak Gypsies in America, 2012 by Steve Piskor ISBN 978-0-578-09989-7; Gypsy Fires in America p. 214 by Irving Brown, 1924 - Irving Brown writes about Braddock, Pa Gypsies