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In India, the Roma did not exist, were Indians. According to the latest genetic and linguistic studies, the ancestors of the Roma, a group of Hindu caste "house" of about 1,000 people, left India somewhere in the VI century. It is expected that this group of musicians and jewelers Indian ruler presented the Persian, as was the custom of the time. Already in Persia size of the group has grown strongly, there was a social division within it (mainly by occupation); pratsygan part in the IX-X centuries, gradually began to move to the west, and finally came to Byzantium and Palestine (two different branches). Some remained in Persia and is spreading out to the east. Part of the Roma, in the end, came to the homeland of their ancestors - India.

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In 1812, the Russian Roma voluntarily transferred the maintenance of large amounts of the Russian army. Young gypsy guys fought in the Russian army.

At the same time, that's funny, in Napoleon's troops fought a lot of French Gypsies. There is even a description of the meeting during a battle between the Spanish and the French gypsy with two different sides.

During World War II the Roma participated in hostilities as part of both regular armies (the Soviet Union, France, ordinary, tankers, military engineers, pilots, medics, gunners, and so on. P.) And the guerrilla groups, mixed and pure Gypsy (USSR France, Eastern Europe). Guerrilla action against the fascists Gypsies sometimes called "Aria against Aryans».

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Some are known more, such as Mariska Veres, Ion Voicu, Janos Bihari, Jem Mace, Mateo Maksimov, Yul Brynner, Tony Gatlif, Bob Hoskins, Nicholas Slichenko, Django Reinhardt, Biréli Lagrène than others, but can also boast a significant contribution to Gypsy culture.

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Sources: romanykultury.livejournal.com and ibigdan.livejournal.com

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