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The village of Geamana once lay deep in a fertile ... Geamana’s 300 families then scattered throughout Romania. And work at the Rosia Poieni mine began in earnest. The site is the second-largest ...

Often pejoratively referred to by the exonym “Gypsies”, these ethnolinguistically ... and boys’ groups from Valea Seacă, a ...

She belongs to the Roma (Gypsy) community, Italy's largest ethnic ... the market of Porta Portese lies the dusty camp of River Village. Some 400 Roma people live here, illegally, on the fringes ...

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Gabrovo, Bulgaria — When rocks crashed through the windows of their home, the bathroom seemed the safest place to hide. Huddled together, the family of Vasil Velichkow Hristov — including his ...

This is home to 300 travellers - a Gypsy ... as Roma. The southern Gypsies speak Catalan at home, even though they have lived in France for generations. The Cite d'Esperance is part of the village ...

Instead he and most of his neighbors unselfconsciously refer to themselves as Tsigani, or Gypsies, the old, pejorative name they grew up with, a label still wielded by many non-Roma in his country ...

A Romanian Gypsy wife has become the world’s youngest grandmother at the age of just 23. Rifca Stanescu gave birth to Maria at the tender age of 12. She urged her daughter not to follow her example, ...

Toby Guise on the fifth Transylvanian Book Festival in and around Richiș, Romania.