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Romani Americans today still migrate across the United States from the Midwest to Nevada, California, Texas, and elsewhere to live close to family and friends or for jobs. Some of the Roma who had once lived in Delay and then in the Dearborn area in Michigan moved to Las Vegas Valley to work or retire.
The Romani people are known by a variety of names, mostly as Gypsies, Roma, Tsinganoi, Bohémiens, and various linguistic variations of these names. There are also numerous subgroups and clans with their own self-designations, such as the Sinti, Kalderash, Boyash, Manouche, Lovari, Lăutari, Machvaya, Romanichal, Romanisael, Kale, Kaale, Xoraxai and Romungro.
In the English language, Romani people have long been known by the exonym Gypsies or Gipsies, [87] which many Roma consider to be an ethnic slur. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] [ 90 ] The attendees of the first World Romani Congress in 1971 unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Roma, including "Gypsy". [ 91 ]
The Romanichal (UK: / ˈ r ɒ m ə n ɪ tʃ æ l / US: /-n i-/; more commonly known as English Gypsies) are a Romani subgroup within the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world. Most Romanichal speak Angloromani , a mixed language that blends Romani vocabulary with English syntax.
[60] [61] For the Muslim Romani communities that have resided in the Balkans for centuries, often referred to as Horahane Roma or "Turkish Gypsies", all Muslim Roma got a Religious male circumcision, the following histories apply for religious beliefs: Bulgaria: In northwestern Bulgaria and Sofia and Kyustendil, Islam has been the dominant ...
Tells you about the world "Gypsy" and Hungarian Slovak Gypsies. An 80 page published study. Romani Realities in the United States - Harvard University; Gypsy Violins Hungarian Slovak Gypsies in America, 2012 by Steve Piskor ISBN 978-0-578-09989-7; Gypsy Fires in America p. 214 by Irving Brown, 1924 - Irving Brown writes about Braddock, Pa Gypsies
DAVIE was originally called Zona, but was renamed for Developer R.P. Davie, who owned a lot of land along the south fork of the New River. The name change was front-page news in The Fort ...
The Ruska Roma (Руска Рома), also known as Russian Gypsies (Русские цыгане) or Khaladitka/Xaladytka Roma (Халадытка Рома; lit. ' Roma Soldiers ' ), [ 1 ] are the largest subgroup of Romani people in Russia and Belarus , [ 2 ] with smaller remnants of the group living in Ukraine , Latvia , Poland , the United ...