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History of the Roma ("Gypsies"), part 1 -- From Ancient Origins to the Eighteenth Century

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Origins of the Romans

The earliest written references to ancestors of the roma might come from persia. The word dam in their language means men or tribesmen, similar to ram in romany. A particular tribes and castes in central india who are called dom seem to have particularly close linguistic and genetic similarities to the roma. And so it probably has been maybe 14 hundred or 15 hundred years since this initial emigration out of india began.

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