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In 1419 more Romani arrived in Provence and Savoy. Nine years later the first Roma were recorded in Paris. In 1802 there was a determined campaign to clear Roma from the French Basque provinces. More than 500 Roma were captured and imprisoned pending their planned deportation to the French colony of Louisiana. The colony was, however, sold in ...
In 2012, the state recorded 16,399 people living in 391 slums across France. Of these, 82% were Romanian and 6% Bulgarian. [5] In consequence, East European migrants who squat are typically regarded as Roma migrants, whether or not they are actually Romani. [7] Nomadic people, who may or may not be Romani, are termed 'travellers' ("Gens du ...
The Romani people, also referred to as Roma, Sinti, or Kale, depending on the subgroup, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group that primarily lives in Europe. The Romani may have migrated from what is the modern Indian state of Rajasthan , [ 1 ] migrating to the northwest (the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent ) around 250 BC. [ 1 ]
The Romani people [k] (/ ˈ r oʊ m ə n i / ROH-mə-nee or / ˈ r ɒ m ə n i / ROM-ə-nee), also known as the Roma (sg.: Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin [74] [75] [76] who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Roma originated in the Indian subcontinent, in ...
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The Romani people have long been a part of the collective mythology of the West, where they were (and very often still are) depicted as outsiders, aliens, and a threat. For centuries they were enslaved in Eastern Europe and hunted in Western Europe: the Pořajmos, Hitler's attempt at genocide, was one violent link in a chain of persecution that encompassed countries generally considered more ...
Phan Châu Trinh was born in Tây Lộc village, Hà Đông district, Thăng Bình fu (now is Tam Lộc commune, Phú Ninh district) of Quảng Nam province in 1872.He was the third son of a rich and famous scholar, who joined and became an official in the Cần Vương association of Quảng Nam in 1885.
Điện Biên Phủ (Vietnamese: [ɗîənˀ ɓīən fû] ⓘ, chữ Hán: 奠 邊 府) is a city in the northwestern region of Vietnam. It is the capital of Điện Biên Province. The city is best known for the decisive Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, which occurred during the First Indochina War of independence against France.