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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 120,000 Romani ...
In 1978, 68% of adult gitanos were illiterate. [49] Literacy has greatly improved over time; approximately 10% of gitanos were illiterate as of 2006-2007 (with older gitanos much more likely than younger gitanos to be illiterate). [50] Ninety-eight percent of gitanos live below the poverty line. [51]
Historian Olga Kucherenko postulates that while Crimean Tatars were in exile, additional Romani people of non-Crimean origin were also absorbed into the Romani Crimean Tatars. [378] In Basque Country, the Erromintxela people are assimilated descendants of a 15th-century wave of Kalderash Roma, who entered the Basque Country via France. [379]
According to a Red Cross report dated 1 February 1918, by the end of 1917, there were 206,500 prisoners of war and internees from Serbia in Austro-Hungarian and German camps. According to the historian Alan Kramer, the Serbians in Austro-Hungarian captivity received the worst treatment of all the prisoners, and at least 30,000–40,000 had died ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
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 Roma community in Argentina (Spanish: Gitanos en Argentina) number more than 300,000. [1] The first Roma to arrive in Argentina were Gitanos who came from Spain at different times and spoke only Spanish dialects instead of the Romani language. [2] The Spanish Roma settled mainly in Buenos Aires. [3]
Nevertheless, many still call themselves Sasytka Roma today. Another name for the Sasytka Roma is "Pluniaki", as they still speak the old accent and loved the color red. They were mainly active throughout Prussia and the Baltic regions. Today, the Sasytka Roma are a subgroup of the Polska Roma and have remained the tribal leaders of the Polska ...