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Factsheets on Romani culture,
history, language, literature and
Roma & related groups

Romani culture

• 0.0 General Introduction
• 1.0 Romani Culture: An Introduction
• 1.1 Development of Romani Culture
• 1.2 A contemporary picture of Romani communities in Eastern Europe
• 1.3 Romani Muslims in the Balkans
• 1.4 Education of Romani children
• 1.5 Relations between Roma and Gadje
• 1.6 Romani given names
• 1.7 Romani group names
• 1.8 Social organisation and family structure
• 1.9 Religion and Beliefs
• 2.0 Cultural variation
• 2.1 The Romani Court
• 2.2 Godparenthood
• 2.3 The evil eye – Jakhendar
• 2.4 Roma and the ‘New Religions’ in Europe
• 2.5 Bibi and Bibijako Djive in Serbia
• 2.6 Socio-cultural transformations following the recent mobility of Roma within the EU
• 3.0 Romani groups
• 3.1 The Gábor in Transylvania, Romania
• 3.2 Servika Roma in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
• 3.3 Vlaxika Rom in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
• 3.4 Travellers in Norway and Sweden
• 3.5 Hungarian Roma in Hungary and Slovakia
• 3.6 Vend Roma in Hungary
• 3.7 Roma in Estonia
• 3.8 Kaale in Finland
• 3.9 The Sepečides from Izmir and surroundings
• 3.10 ‘Hungarian Roma’ in Transylvania
• 3.11 Prekmurje Roma, Slovenia
• 3.12 ‘Slovak Roma’ in Transcarpathian Ukraine
• 3.13 The Sinti in Hungary
• 3.14 Kotl’ar’a (Kəldərar’a) in Russia
• 3.15 Russian Roma
• 3.16 The Sinti Communities in Italy
• 3.17 Roma in Colombia: Arrivals, lives and political organization

Romani history

• 0.0 General Introduction
• 1.0 From India to Europe
• 2.0 Arrival in Europe
• 2.1 Ottoman Empire
• 2.2 Wallachia and Moldavia
• 2.3 Central Europe
• 2.4 Western Europe
• 2.5 Mediterranean Sea routes
• 3.0 Integration, forced assimilation, deportation
• 3.1 Austro-Hungarian Empire
• 3.2 Russian Empire
• 3.3 The Great "Gypsy" Round-up in Spain
• 4.0 Second Migration
• 4.1 Austria and Hungary 1850–1938
• 4.2 Soviet Union before World War II
• 5.0 Holocaust
• 5.1 Concentration Camps
• 5.2 The Nazi Period in Italy
• 5.3 Internment in France 1940–1946
• 5.4 The Nazi Period in the Baltic states
• 5.5 Deportations from Romania
• 5.6 Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti on the Territory of Czechoslovakia
• 6.0 Situation of Concentration Camps Survivors
• 6.1 State Policies under Communism
• 6.2 Institutionalisation and Emancipation
• 7.0 Third Migration

Romani language

• 0.0 General Introduction
• 1.0 Preface
• 2.0 Words
• 3.0 Sounds
• 4.0 Forms
• 5.0 Sentences
• 6.0 Dialects I
• 6.1 Dialects II
• 7.0 Sociolinguistics

Romani literature

• 0.0 General Introduction
• 1.0 Oral Literature
• 1.1 Texts of Oral Literature
• 2.0 Romani Literature

Roma & related groups

• 1.0 History of the Balkan Egyptians
• 2.0 History of Ashkali Identity
• 3.0 Roma and groups associated with the Roma in Turkey