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The term gitano evolved from the word egiptano [10] ("Egyptian"), which was the Old Spanish demonym for someone from Egipto (Egypt). "Egiptano" was the regular adjective in Old Spanish for someone from Egypt, however, in Middle and Modern Spanish the irregular adjective egipcio supplanted egiptano to mean Egyptian, probably to differentiate Egyptians from Gypsies.
The Prison Window by John Phillip depicting a Romani family in Spain during the Great Gypsy Round-up.. The Great Gypsy Round-up (Spanish: Gran Redada de Gitanos), also known as the general imprisonment of the Gypsies (prisión general de gitanos), was a raid authorized and organized by the Spanish Monarchy that led to the arrest of most Roma in the region and the genocide of 12,000 Romani ...
The first Romani group in Mexico were the Spanish gitanos that arrived during the Colonial era. Some of the mid-19th century migrants may have arrived to Mexico via Argentina. [2] In the late 19th and early 20th century migrants from Hungary, Poland and Russia began arriving. [1]
The term used to be, along with gitanos, a Spanish name for Roma. [12] They were also identified as the Comprachicos or Comprapequeños (meaning "boy-buyers") in Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs . Hugo claimed that traces of this group can be found in the penal laws passed by Spanish and English governments. [ 14 ]
Paloma Gay y Blasco is a social anthropologist specialising in gender and Spanish Gitanos (Roma/Gypsies). She is a full-time lecturer at University of St Andrews and has published two books and several articles, including Gypsies in Madrid: Sex, Gender, and the Performance of Identity (1999 Oxford, Berg) and with Huon Wardle "How to Read Ethnography" (2008 London Routledge).
Lolita Flores (1958) – Spanish singer and actress; Los Niños de Sara – French (Spanish origin, Iberian Kale) rumba and flamenco singers and guitar players; Manitas de Plata (born 1921) – Spanish guitarist; Manolis Angelopoulos – Greek singer; Marianne Rosenberg (born 1955) – German singer-songwriter; daughter of German Gypsy who ...
The Romancero gitano (often translated into English as Gypsy Ballads) is a poetry collection by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.First published in 1928, it is composed of eighteen romances with subjects like the night, death, the sky, and the moon.
Romani dance in Slovenia. This is a list of dances of the Romani people.. Among the many styles of Gypsy dance, the most famous is the flamenco dance, the traditional dance from Andalusia in Southern Spain.