Where did Gypsies come from?
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The Roma people, often referred to as Gypsies, are a heterogeneous ethnic group who live primarily in Southern and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Latin America, southern states of North America and the Middle East. They are believed to have originated in the northern part of the Indian Subcontinent. They began their migration to Europe and North Africa via the Iranian plateau about 1,000 years ago.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_(people)\n\nhttp://www.xmission.com/~dderhak/monte/gypsies.htm\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/gypsies.html
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Colonial scholars believed that the Tutsi came from East Africa, possibly Sudan, Uganda or Ethiopia, around 1400, to settle first around Lake Kivu.\n\nThe Hutu arrived in the Great Lakes region around the 1st century, displacing the Twa.
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After the Roman and Byzantine empires , Bulgaria is the first kingdom in Europe. So Bulgarians are Europeans more than any other European citizens can be.
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What were you thinking when you asked that question?  Where did your family members come from?  WOW!
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Austria and Russia were heavily populated by minorities.  Austria-Hungary was less than 50% German and Hungarian.  Many areas such as Bosnia, Bukowina and Silesia that did not even have any ethnic majority.  In Austria, the country tried to accommodate languages and cultures by allowing the people the ability to carry on their own traditions.  The Russian approach was to surpress nationalities and require instruction in Russian.\n\nDuring WW I both countries were in part undermined by the nationalities.  The fuse itself, Serbian terrorism, was out of a desire to create a Southern Slav nation.
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1807, from Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the "white" race 1795 (in Ger.) by Ger. anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because their supposed ancestral homeland lay there; since abandoned as a historical/anthropological term. Lit. meaning "resident or native of the Caucasus" is from 1843. The mountain range name is from Gk. kaukhasis, from Scythian kroy-khasis, lit. "(the mountain) ice-shining."
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Slavian - or more properly in English, Slavic - is a cultural term and not a racial phenotype.  The five phenotypes are: Caucasian/Caucasoid, Mongolian/Mongoloid, Ethopian/Neg roid,  Malayan/Australoid, and Amerindian.  Sometimes a sixth race, Capoid, is also included.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28historical_definitions%29\n\n"Historians do not agree over the origin of the Illyrians. Some of them maintain that the Illyrians descended from the pre-Indo-European Pelasgians, while most scholars place them in the later wave of Indo-European invasions. "\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania\n\n"Whether the Pelasgian language was pre-Indo-European or not, and the extent to which it was a single language or not, are modern disputes that are colored by contemporary nationalist issues. Scholars have since come to use the term 'Pelasgian' somewhat indiscriminately, to indicate all the autochthonous inhabitants of these lands before the arrival of the Greeks ..."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelasgians\n\n"Physical anthropology defines Caucasoid with a pattern of physical traits typical of humans indigenous to an area including Europe, South Asia, West Asia and parts of North Africa, Central Asia."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasoid\n\n"Indo-European is a linguistic term, referring to:\n * the family of Indo-European languages \n * the associated speakers, the Indo-Europeans\n * the academic field of Indo-European studies\n * sometimes, for brevity, to Proto-Indo-European:\n          o the Proto-Indo-European language\n          o the associated hypothetical speakers or                             \n          o hypothetical ethnic group, the Proto-Indo-Europeans"\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-european\n\n"The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred languages and dialects (443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and Southern Asia. "\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages\n\nTherefore, academics who characterize Albanians (Illyrians) as an Indo-European people would likely consider them of the Caucasoid phenotype.  Academics who consider them Pelasgian either would not know how to racially categorize them or would consider the matter up to debate.
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Some people believe that he did.  They believe that he and Mary Magdalen married, traveled to India and had children;  The Gypsies from India are Christians, migrated out of India and into Europe and could be the direct or indirect progeny of Jesus and Mary.  Of course those who believe this do not accept Jesus' death on the cross and his ascension into heaven found in traditional Christian theology.
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"garantujeme původ" means "we guarantee origin" ... probably would loosely translate to "we know when it came from"
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The wild ancestors of cows were native to northern Africa, Europe, and southern Asia.
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First of all I want to say that people has to make a distinction between romanians and gypsis. the romanians are OK but they have to be more civilized.
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long live the gypsy life\nor bohemian
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Too many to state all of them. As a species we started out somewhere in the African savannahs and moved from there all over the globe. All the different modern sub-groups with all their different attributes come from the same ancestors. \nWhat changed on that trip? Skin color for starters. Hair structure. Lactose-tolerance. And so on. \nI am sure you can think of more yourself.
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French colonies in Africa. \nNo, Europeans aren't supposed to be Caucasian. I don't know where you heard that from?
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According to the English, it is derived from a place name indicating that they came from a place near the woods, or perhaps a grove of trees. My guess is that it is of Scandinavian origin and can be found all over Northern Europe.
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Well, my ancestors come from Virginia, Bermuda, England Scotland, Germany (or actually several small historical countries that are part of Germany now), France, Austria, the Ukraine...but we've all been Southerners for nearly 200 years. \n\nNationality is  a relatively new concept that doesn't really tell you that much about who a person is. The truth is, everybody's family history gets greatly simplified--especially when you're filling out forms--and quite a lot of our families' past becomes lost to history until someone takes the time to dig it up.