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  2. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator

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    The film begins with a sexologist in his office, talking about the history of sex. Izabela (Eva Ras), an ethnic Hungarian switchboard operator, meets and falls in love with a Sandžak Muslim sanitation inspector named Ahmed (Slobodan Aligrudić), who soon moves into her apartment and has a shower installed. The film then cuts away to a police ...

  3. History of the Romani people - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. 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]

  4. Romani society and culture - Wikipedia

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    e. 1552 woodcut of a Romani family. The Romani people are a distinct ethnic and cultural group of peoples living all across the globe, who share a family of languages and sometimes a traditional nomadic mode of life. [1] Though their exact origins were unclear, [2] recent studies show Kashmir in Northwest India is the most probable point of ...

  5. Gitanos - Wikipedia

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    Historically, gitanos spoke Caló, also known as Romanés, fluently, often alongside the language spoken in the region they inhabited. Caló is a type of para-Romani, combining the phonology and grammar of the Catalan or Castilian, with a lexicon derived from Romani. The para-Romani resulting from the combination of Basque and Romani is called ...

  6. Romani people in Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The presence of Romani people in Ukraine (Ukrainian: Цигани в Україні, romanized: Tsyhany v Ukrayini) was first documented in the early 15th century. [3] The Romani maintained their social organizations and folkways, shunning non-Romani contacts, education and values, often as a reaction to anti-Romani attitudes and ...

  7. Romani literature - Wikipedia

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    Romani literature or Roma literature is literature by Romani people. It is composed of both written and oral literature. [1] [2] Authors may most likely reside in various countries throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa and these continents have a long history of being home to Romani people. [3] One aspect of Romani literature are ...

  8. Romani folklore - Wikipedia

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    Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during the Middle Ages. They migrated widely, particularly to Europe, while other groups stayed and became sedentary. Some legends (often from non-Romani peoples) say that certain Romani have ...

  9. Rajko Đurić - Wikipedia

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    Đurić was born on 3 October 1947 in Malo Orašje, Smederevo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. He studied philosophy at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy (1967–1972). In 1986 he obtained a Doctorate of Sociology writing the dissertation Culture of the Roma in S.F.R. Yugoslavia. In 1991 he moved to Berlin avoiding involvement in the ...