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The small number of Romanians that first arrived in Britain were primarily Jews fleeing persecution during the Second World War. [7] The activities of the Romanian exiles started in 1941, through the effort of individuals such as Ambassador Viorel Tilea, Major George Emil Iliescu, and legal counselor Ecaterina Iliescu. They founded the Anglo ...
Romani people have been recorded in the United Kingdom since at least the early 16th century. There are estimated to be around 225,000 Romani people residing in the UK. This includes the Romanichal, Kale (Welsh Roma), Scottish Lowland Roma and a sizeable population of Roma from Central and Eastern Europe, who immigrated into the UK in the late 1990s/early 2000s and after EU expansion in 2004.
Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly Latin-speaking territories from the Greek-speaking lands in Southeastern Europe) in Late Antiquity.
The absence of a written history has meant that the origin and early history of the Romani people was long an enigma. Indian origin was suggested on linguistic grounds as early as the late 18th century. [9] In the Roma language, "rom" means husband/man, while "romňi" means wife/woman, and thus "roma" means "husbands/people".
[19] [20] The depredations of the Picts from the north and Scotti (Scots) from Ireland forced the Britons to seek help from pagan Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who then decided to settle in Britain. Some of the Romano-British people migrated to Brittany, the Suebi Kingdom of Galicia and possibly Ireland. [5]
Some estimates Ireland give the population at 1,700 in 2004, [2] rising to between 2,500 and 3,000 in 2005. [1] The Romani people first migrated from northwestern India between 500 and 600 AD. [ 3 ] They first arrived in Europe via Greece and Bulgaria around the 13th century and the majority of Romani people remained in Southeastern Europe .
Often, Romania is wrongly identified as the place of origin of the Roma because of the similar name Roma/Romani and Romanians. Romanians derive their name from the Latin romanus, meaning "Roman", [232] referencing the Roman conquest of Dacia. (The Dacians were a sub-group of the Thracians.)
Most Roma migrants in Britain speak the national languages of their country of origin, with some speaking a dialect of Romani additionally. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Romani people from different countries often have considerable cultural differences between them, and even in the same country they may have different sub-ethnic identities.