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ROMANY PEOPLE
THE GYPSIES - The Wandering
People
Robert D. Morritt
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 In the year 1417 the inhabitants of the countries situated
near the mouth of the Elbe were disturbed by the arrival of strange
travelers. They proceeded to Hamburg, and then, going from east to west along
the Baltic. They visited the free towns of Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock,
Stralsund, and Greifswald. These new visitors, known in Europe under the
names of Zingari, Cigani, Gipsies, Gitanos, Egyptians, or Bohemians, but who,
in their own language, called themselves Romi, or gens mariés, numbered about
three hundred men and women. This book follows their journeys over several
centuries and examines their lifestyle, customs and subsequent encounters
with Europeans and tragedies that were visited upon these 'strange people'.
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