Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire : a contribution to the history of the Balkans
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Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire : a contribution to the history of the Balkans
（Interface collection, 22）
Centre de recherches tsiganes , University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105)
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The Roma presence in the European part of the Ottoman Empire - the Balkans - is centuries old and it is not by accident that this regions has often been called the second motherland of the Gypsies. From this region Gypsies moved westwards taking with them inherited Balkan cultural models and traditions. This book explores the history, ethnography, social structure and culture of the Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire. It is based on archival sources, mainly detailed tax registers, special laws, guild registers and court documents. Notes on Gypsies in books by foreign travellers are also included.
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