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Historical Atlas of the Gypsies: Romani history in maps.
Gypsies. Gypsies on the South Side, 1941. Gypsies live the world over as nations within nations. They call themselves the Rom and live by a strict religious and legal code known as Romania. Their mother tongue is Romany, a Sanskrit-derived language that reveals their Indian origins.
7 lip 2009 · Gypsies have been part of the Chicago landscape since the late 1800s, and today you can find them shopping, attending churches and working as musicians in jazz clubs, concert halls and European-themed restaurants throughout the Chicago area.
They were sometimes identified as gypsies by settlers, but did have some permanent cabins on the route, including some kind of monumental, three-pointed "log mansion" that the patriarch Tom Ishmael used as a winter home in the northern section of the triangle.
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The Romani or Roma are a nomadic ethnic group, often pejoratively referred to as Gypsies, who have been in the Americas since the first Romani people reportedly arrived on Christopher Columbus’ third voyage in 1498.
The Mitchell Archaeological Site is a pre-Columbian Mississippian mound center located at Mitchell, Illinois. The site is related to the settlement at Cahokia, and originally had a platform mound and village consisting of 10-13 additional mounds.
