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A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and RussiaHungary

A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Hungary [Official Hungarian documents show that the Roma settled in Hungary at the end of the Middle Ages. One Slovak scholar, Emília Horváthová, has speculated that Gypsies fled through Hungary in 1241 to escape the invading Mongols.1 Some scholars have pointed to a letter in 1260 from Ottokar II (r. 1253–1278), the king of Bohemia, to Pope Alexander IV (r. 1254–1261), in which the Bohemian ruler mentions Cingari in the army of Bela IV (r. 1235–1270) of Hungary, whom Ottokar II had defeated earlier in the year in a struggle for Styria. Angus Fraser concludes in his masterful TheGypsies (1992) that on closer inspection “a better reading of his letter replaces Cingarorum by Bulgarorum.” During the fourteenth century, Roma began to settle in the Slovak portions of Hungary, particularly around castles in the region. Initially, the Gypsies were welcomed into this part of Hungary because of the area’s sparse population. The local nobility and peasants treated the Rom with respect and believed them to be religious exiles from Egypt, the mythical place of Gypsy origin to many East Europeans at that time.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and RussiaHungary

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
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978-1-4039-8009-0
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69 –106
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10.1007/978-1-137-10596-7_3
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[Official Hungarian documents show that the Roma settled in Hungary at the end of the Middle Ages. One Slovak scholar, Emília Horváthová, has speculated that Gypsies fled through Hungary in 1241 to escape the invading Mongols.1 Some scholars have pointed to a letter in 1260 from Ottokar II (r. 1253–1278), the king of Bohemia, to Pope Alexander IV (r. 1254–1261), in which the Bohemian ruler mentions Cingari in the army of Bela IV (r. 1235–1270) of Hungary, whom Ottokar II had defeated earlier in the year in a struggle for Styria. Angus Fraser concludes in his masterful TheGypsies (1992) that on closer inspection “a better reading of his letter replaces Cingarorum by Bulgarorum.” During the fourteenth century, Roma began to settle in the Slovak portions of Hungary, particularly around castles in the region. Initially, the Gypsies were welcomed into this part of Hungary because of the area’s sparse population. The local nobility and peasants treated the Rom with respect and believed them to be religious exiles from Egypt, the mythical place of Gypsy origin to many East Europeans at that time.2]

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