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Carlos Miguel, lawyer and politician who was the first Romani cabinet member in the country and was Mayor of Torres Vedras. [39] Maria Severa Onofriana, or simply Severa, the first renowned fado singer. [40] Alfredo Quaresma, former football player in the Portugal national team. Artur Quaresma, former football player in the Portugal national ...
In what is today's mainland Portugal territory, before the rule of the Roman Empire, several peoples and tribes were living there for many centuries and they had their own culture, language and political organization (tribal chiefdoms, tribal confederations and early forms of kingdoms and states), these peoples and tribes were in the Iron Age.
The migration of the Romani people through the Middle East and Northern Africa to Europe. The key shows the century of arrival in that area, e.g., S.XII is the 12th century. Romani people first arrived in Europe via the Balkans sometime between the 9th and 14th centuries from north India, through Iran, Armenia, and Anatolia. [33] [34] [35]
The Romani in Spain, generally known by the endonym Calé, [6] or the exonym gitanos (Spanish pronunciation:), belong to the Iberian Romani subgroup known as Calé, with smaller populations in Portugal (known as ciganos) and in Southern France (known as tsiganes).
The Romani people have long been a part of the collective mythology of the West, where they frequently were (and still are) depicted as outsiders, aliens, and a threat. For centuries, they were enslaved in Eastern Europe and they were also hunted in Western Europe: the Porajmos, Hitler's attempt to commit genocide against the Romani people, was one violent link in a chain of persecution that ...
[89] [90] [91] The attendees of the first World Romani Congress in 1971 unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Roma, including "Gypsy". [92] However, it is the group's common name amongst Romani people in the United Kingdom. [93] Romani slaves were first shipped to the Americas with Columbus in 1498. [94]
Pages in category "Portuguese Romani people" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. M.
Pages in category "Portuguese people of Romani descent" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. M.