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The history of the town

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The history of the Roma people

The Roma People originally emerged in Central India, the exact time of migration is unknown (although it is considered to have happened between the eighth and tenth centuries) and the reasons that prompted the journey from North India, but it is speculated that it was on the occasion of the Turkish Wars that began the migration to the West, and with their displacements, they brought with them their own language and culture.

When analyzing the Romani language, and comparing it with other languages, it is seen that the Romani migrated from Central India to the eastern parts of North India, and probably stayed there for some time. They then possibly moved through Persia and Armenia to the Byzantine Empire, to Asia Minor, and then to Greece. Linguistic findings point to a fairly homogeneous group that arrived in the Byzantine Empire, this follows because all Roma groups that exist today have a common linguistic base, which also includes parts of the Greek lexicon and grammar. However, linguistic data cannot provide precise dates, and there are no contemporary documents on the migration of the Roma through the Middle East, only later writings referring to the Roma People, but always from a distance of Many centuries.

From 1414 to 1417, individual groups could easily move around Europe thanks to safe-conducts (similar to a passport) granted by the Roman Emperor Sigismund (1368-1437), which were presented to city governors upon arrival. Such safe-conducts were letters of recommendation from religious and secular rulers, which ensured safe conduct of groups in the cities, as well as guaranteed free and safe travel to both the bearer and his company.

By declaring their journey a pilgrimage, as well as their letters of safe conduct, they ensured a friendly reception on their first trips to Central and Western Europe.

antigypsyism

Arriving in the West el Pueblo Rom brings with them knowledge in various arts or trades, wisdom that influenced wherever they arrived and shared such knowledge.

Anti-Gypsyism is discrimination against the Roma community, a persistent phenomenon that has manifested itself since the arrival of the Roma  People in Europe, and which is frequently accompanied by episodes of hatred and violence by the Roma. different social classes. The ideas of blood cleansing had an impact on both the Roma population and the non-Roma population and the ideas of the same.

1492 - The few freedoms of minority peoples end. Jews, Muslims and Rome are expelled and forced to convert

1499 - All Roma sentenced to slavery

1539 - The pragmatics of such a year allows the use of inmates with bodily vigor as labor in the galleys and in the expropriation trips to America

1600 -1500 - he made creams and such, but they called it estregonería, this derives from antigypsy ideas, they take knowledge from one place to another.

1623 - Roma denied group status, allowing slaughter, torture, and enslavement de Romanices

1717 - Forces Roma people to abandon their customs and language, in addition, to live in 41 specific towns and cities

1749 - The Great Raid takes place on July 30

1753 - Roma imprisoned in the Great Roundup are released

1783 - It is decreed that those Roma who left their culture and customs could be considered as equals

1933 - The Nazi government introduces the law to regulate the sterilization of the Roma

1933 - The republican courts promulgate the Law of Vagrants and Maleantes, which pigeonholed the Roma within the asocial

1938 - The “Gypsy Cleansing Week” (June 12-18), in which hundreds of Roma are rounded up and imprisoned in Germany and Austria

1940 - 250 Roma children are used for experiments in the Buchenwald concentration camp, and are later taken to the gas chambers at Auschwitz

1944 - on August 2, almost three thousand Roma perished, in which the gas chambers of Auschwitz

1950 - The German Government declares that "it owes nothing to the gypsy people in terms of compensation for war crimes"

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