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The term gitano evolved from the word egiptano[10] ("Egyptian"), which was the Old Spanish demonym for someone from Egipto (Egypt). "Egiptano" was the regular adjective in Old Spanish for someone from Egypt, however, in Middle and Modern Spanish the irregular adjective egipcio supplanted egiptano to mean Egyptian, probably to differentiate ...
12 sie 2015 · The Gypsies who reached Western Europe in the 15th century were mostly refugees from Ottoman persecution, but local populations in Germany and France assumed they were spies for the Turks. In the mid-18th century, the Spanish government rounded up the Romani and deported able-bodied men to forced labor camps.
10 maj 2022 · Originally, these groups of gypsies or Gitanos residing in Spain originated from the Indian subcontinent, particularly northwest India, with the first Roma leaving northwest India between the ninth and fourteenth century.
1 paź 2008 · The history of Spain's gypsies presents a significant challenge to the researcher. As a marginal and itinerant society they left no written records, and so Richard Pym has chosen to approach his subject largely from the perspective of the Habsburg and Bourbon governments.
16 wrz 2015 · More than 44% of the Roma individuals belonged to the Indian H-M52 haplogroup (including H-M82), ranging from 64% in the Balkan Peninsula to 21% in Spain (Supplementary Figure S1). In contrast ...
Spanish Gypsies arrived in Spain around the 15th century, although there are theories suggesting earlier arrivals as well. They made their way primarily through Eastern Europe, crossing borders and adapting to different cultures along the way.
Like Gypsies elsewhere, Gitanos have historically been the object of elite and artistic interest in subordinate minorities. Often depicted as idealized noble savages and sometimes as depraved beings, Gitanos have embodied the fantasies of both non-Gypsy critics and champions of Spain.