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Roma (Gypsy) population by country Country Official Source Low estimate High estimate Note Abkhazia* 261 (2011 census) [98] 500 600 Afghanistan – – 20,000 30,000 Albania 8,301 (2011 census) [21] 80,000 150,000 Roma population lives in 71 communes. Algeria – – 2,500 40,000 Angola – – 12,000 16,000 Argentina – – 300,000 350,000 ...
In Britain, many Roma proudly identify as "Gypsies", [126] and, as part of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller grouping, this is the name used to describe all para-Romani groups in official contexts. [127] In North America, the word Gypsy is most commonly used as a reference to Romani ethnicity, though lifestyle and fashion are at times also ...
This village has a very young age structure and a growing population while other nearby villages are ageing and depopulating very fast L. Karavelovo village Aksakovo, Varna: 1,539 1,065 69.20% Seliminovo: village Sliven, Sliven: 1,481 819 55.30% Svoboda gypsy part Maglizh: 800 800 ~100% Svoboda: village Chirpan, Stara Zagora: 1,131 688 60.83% ...
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 ...
Romani people in Hungary (also known as roma or Romani Hungarians; Hungarian: magyarországi romák, magyar cigányok) are Hungarian citizens of Romani descent.According to the 2011 census, they comprise 3.18% of the total population, which alone makes them the largest minority in the country, [21] although various estimations have put the number of Romani people as high as 8.8% of the total ...
The most widespread group of the Romani in the country are the yerli or the 'local Roma', who are in turn divided into Bulgarian Gypsies (Dasikane Roma) and Turkish Gypsies (Horahane Roma). The former are Christian ( Eastern Orthodox and some few are believe in Evangelicalism ), while the latter are Cultural Muslims .
Total population; Estimated 650,000 ... ("Gypsy Ballad Book") The Roma is the most basic, most profound, the most aristocratic of my country, as representative of ...
Rousseau, as French consul in Bosnia and Herzegovina, estimated in 1866 a number of 9,965 or 1.1 percent of the population were Romani. Johann Roskiewicz estimated in 1867 the number of the "Gypsies" in Bosnia at 9,000 (1.2 percent) and in Herzegovina at 2,500 (1.1 percent), resulting in a total of 11,500 Romani.