Vesselin Popov

University of St Andrews · School of History

Correction to: European Journal of Human Genetics https://www.nature.com/articles/ejhg2015201, published online 16 September 2015 Access to the supplementary Tables in this article has been removed because of concerns that the data presented could be potentially identifiable.

The petition mentioned in the document above proves that the inhabitants of Pırnarlık (or Pırnalık) neighbourhood in Xanthi, which, even today, is reputed to have a high concentration of Gypsies (Aarbakke, 2000, p. 94) as early as 1905 were aware of the theories on the Indian origin of Gypsies.

Remzi Mustafa was one of the Gypsy tobacco workers affiliated with the TKP and whom the party administration sent to the USSR for training. While the file enlightens his personal experiences in USSR during this period, it also sheds light on the life course of a Gypsy Communist in Turkey and the USSR. He was born in Drama, Greece, in 1908. Both of...

The news above again points to the participation of Gypsies in the communist movement. At the same time, it exemplifies how the press combined the popular prejudices against ‘Gypsies’ and the fear and distrust against communists to discredit the leftist movements of the era. In the first passage, the anonymous author declares that the offenders hir...

This article traces the beginning of Romani literature. It focuses on the work of Alexander Germano in the context of the history of a unique Romani literacy project developed in the USSR before the Second World War. It shows the peculiarity of the Soviet Romani literature and in particular the personal activities and contributions of Germano, the...

p>From the beginning, academic research on Gypsies in Western Europe has presented their nomadic way of life as their most important and essential feature, a key pillar of their community identity. Measures for their sedentarisation were perceived as a shackle in a chain of persecutions, and the policy of sedentarisation conducted in the 1950s–1970...

The editorial introduces the key ideas of this thematic issue, which originated within the European Research Council project ‘RomaInterbellum. Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars.’ The period between WWI and WWII in the region of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe was an era of worldwide significant changes, which marked the bi...

This article presents the history of the politics of multilingualism (or lack thereof) in regard to Roma (formerly known as ‘Gypsies’). In the 1920s and 1930s in the newly established Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, against a backdrop of proclaimed principles of full equality of all peoples living in the new state, commenced a rapid creation o...

The article offers a correction of the widespread approach in which in the studies of Romani movement for civic emancipation are examined only its international dimensions, leaving behind its origin and first stages, which occurred in individual countries. Based on the research of historical sources we will show the commencement and roots of the Ro...

Gypsies are not an isolated group, they have a multifaceted identity and national individuality. In order to identify the nature and determinants of Roma migrations, they should be given attention as an ethnically specific community. Roma migration in the past and in the present are dictated by the collective strategies in response to current polit...

The whole history of the Roma people reflects a constant quest to find a "good place for life". Two possible ways of achieving this goal are used consecutively or simultaneously. In an attempt to secure their well-being, some Roma communities change the place where they reside and spread out across huge territories throughout the world. Others are...

This chapter defines the main communities included under the designation of Gypsies (Dom, Lom and Roma) in the Caucasus area and presents historical and demographic data. It looks at the current features of the three communities studied in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and the Russian Federation, as well as their migration in the post-Soviet Space.

This chapter defines the term Gypsies and charts the area of study—the countries, settlements and regions where field research was conducted—and the methodology.

This chapter defines the main communities in Central Asia covered by the designations Gypsy, Gypsy-like and Intermediate Communities. Historic and demographic data is presented, which reveals the current features of the two studied communities (Mughat and Roma) in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, as well as their migration in the...

The region designated as ‘Central and Eastern Europe’ in this book is inhabited by many different and sizeable groups, who are called with similar names in various countries: ‘Cyganie’ (Poland), ‘Čigonai’ (Lithuania), ‘Čigāni’ (Latvia), ‘Cigáni’ (Slovakia), ‘Cikáni’ (Czech Republic), ‘Cigányok’ (Hungary), ‘Ţigani’ (Romania, Republic of Moldova), ‘Ц...

This book explores diverse communities living in Central Asia and the Caucasus, who are generally gathered under the umbrella term of ‘Gypsies’, their multidimensional identities, self-appellations and labels given to them by surrounding populations, researcher and policy-makers. The book presents various Gypsy and Gypsy-like communities and provid...

p> Central Asian Gypsies: identities and migrations During recent years the topic of Gypsy/Roma migration and identities became burning topic of pan-EUropean public discourse. Much less attention is paid to the Gypsy migrations outside the borders of European Union. The present article has ambitious goal to fulfill this gap and to present contemp...

The article analyzes contemporary political discourses with regard to social inclusion of Roma on the basis of comparison with achievements and failures in the previous historical period of the communist rule in Eastern Europe. It argues that since the vast majority of the European Roma had lived in the past and continue living nowadays in the coun...

The Roma, also known as 'Gypsies', represent the largest and the most widespread ethnic minority of Europe. There is increasing evidence, based on linguistic, anthropological and genetic data, to suggest that they originated from the Indian subcontinent, with subsequent bottlenecks and undetermined gene flow from/to hosting populations during their...

: Two types of ethnonym – endonyms (used within a community itself) and exonyms (used by other Gypsy groups and the macro-society) – correlate in complex ways. We concentrate on cases characteristic of the Balkans and the Gypsy groups who migrated from there in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among these groups, ethnonyms are formed on the...

Diversity of Gypsy communities Gypsies followed different migratory routes and settled in the Russian Em-pire in various historical periods. The region discussed in this article was, in fact, part of one country over a relatively long period of time − at first the Russian Empire, and later the Soviet Union. There is a strong bond between the Gypsie...

The Gypsy court is an important feature in the lives of many Gypsy/Roma groups in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe. We do not use the term 'Gypsies' in the sense of different traveling communities, but in the way it is understood in these regions, namely, as a designation for an ethnic population (among the terms used in these regions are...

Processes with different directions, velocity and frequency flow constantly among Gypsy groups. These processes can be reduced to two main contradictory and cor­ related tendencies: segmentation of the group into separate subgroup divisions, and consolidation of the separate subgroup divisions into one group. In both cases, the newly formed communi...

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The book with the poetical title A nation from the ashes by Sławomir Kapralski is devoted to the Roma and their memory of suffering, and its relation to the Roma identity. This is not the first publication examining genocide suffered by the Roma, but the first that puts it into the br...

http://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/web/APSA2014/docmedia.php?type=1&page=2. Different communities, living in the new, independent states of Central Asia, (former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan) are often called with the umbrella appellation 'Central-Asian Gypsies'. However, uniting all these groups, which...

After the collapse of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe and the accession of most countries from the region to the European Union gradually Roma issue became topical for Europe. This was a logical consequence of surge of anti-Gypsy attitudes in public space and media. In frames of the European Union accessions process for most countries in the...

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The publication in 1972 of the book by Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon, ‘The Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies’ and its numerous translations into different languages, launched the foundations for a new direction in Romani Studies – the research into the persecution and annihilation of ‘Gy...

This article presents the community of the Romanies/Gypsies called the Zargar, who live in contemporary Iran. For centuries the Zargar had not been aware of the existence of other Gypsies. Only nowadays, with the means of modern telecommunications, including the Internet, have representatives of the Zargar 'discovered' that there are other Roma in...

Depuis les années soixante, une importante vague de migration de Tsiganes de l'Est vers l'Ouest se développe. Elle s'inscrit dans le cadre de la migration des travailleurs, et l'ouverture des frontières de la Yougoslavie en 1968 accentue ce phénomène. Les Tsiganes ne sont pas, alors, distingués du reste de la population des gastarbeiters. Après la...

Processes with different directions, velocity and frequency flow constantly among Gypsy groups. These processes can be reduced to two main contradictory and cor ­ related tendencies: segmentation of the group into separate subgroup divisions, and consolidation of the separate subgroup divisions into one group. In both cases, the newly formed commun...

The identification of a growing number of novel Mendelian disorders and private mutations in the Roma (Gypsies) points to their unique genetic heritage. Linguistic evidence suggests that they are of diverse Indian origins. Their social structure within Europe resembles that of the jatis of India, where the endogamous group, often defined by profess...

The identification of a growing number of novel Mendelian disorders and private mutations in the Roma (Gypsies) points to their unique genetic heritage. Linguistic evidence suggests that they are of diverse Indian origins. Their social structure within Europe resembles that of the jatis of India, where the endogamous group, often defined by profess...

The initiative for this publication is that of Nicolae Gheorghe, Adviser on Roma and Sinti Issues, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE, Warsaw. The text was prepared by the expert group and discussed at a workshop in Sofia, 15-16 December 2000. Our idea was to present a synthetic monograph in which all points of view regarding...

Previous genetic studies, supported by linguistic and historical data, suggest that the European Roma, comprising a large number of socially divergent endogamous groups, may be a complex conglomerate of founder populations. The boundaries and characteristics of such founder populations and their relationship to the currently existing social stratif...

Data provided by the social sciences and genetic research suggest that the 8-10 million Roma who live in Europe today are best described as a conglomerate of genetically isolated founder populations. The relationship between the traditional social structure observed by the Roma, where the Group is the primary unit, and the boundaries, demographic h...

Gypsies have been living in the land of Bulgaria for centuries. The surrounding population refers to them with the generic name Tsigani and perceives them as one whole undifferentiated community. It is true that all Gypsies in Bulgaria belong to the Roma stream and that Roma is also their common self-appellation; however, they are internally divide...

One of the primary ethno-eultural characteristics of a given community is its way of life; with the Gypsies, this aspect is closely connected to their professional specialisation. The situation among Gypsies is very specifie indeed, as it cannot be established with certainty whether their initial ‘traditional’ way of life was settled or wandering....

In general, Bulgarian Gypsies are Eastern Orthodox Christians and Moslems — the two mainstream religions in Bulgaria. Today a heavy influence is exercized by the different Protestant denominations (often considered "sects" in Bulgaria), and certain evangelical churches recruiting among the Gypsies. The proposed paper will look at the Relations of E...

After the Kosovo crisis the world discovered the existence of a new community, unknown till then. This was the community of the so called Balkan Egyptians. The international institutions (such as KFOR, UNHCR, OSCE and others), the non- governmental and human rights organizations and the mass media were puzzled and confused by this new phenomenon an...

ConsEil dE l´EuRoPE roma | culture Every nation around the world preserves its ethnographic and dialectal diversity as a valuable cultural heritage. This diversity is greater among the Roma due to historical events, the lack of a common territory, the dispersal of their communities in many different countries, life in different cultural environment...