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The Roma, Gypsies and the Romany
Title: The Roma, Gypsies and the Romany
Category: History
Details: Words: 1301 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Roma, Gypsies and the Romany
The Roma have been made up of many different groups of people, and have absorbed outsiders throughout their history. Because they arrived in Europe from the East, they were thought by the first Europeans to be from Turkey, Nubia or Egypt, or any number of vaguely acknowledged non-European places, and they were called, among other things, Egyptians or 'Gyptians, which is where the word "Gypsy" comes from. In some places, this Egyptian identity was taken …showed first 75 words of 1301 total…
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