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A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and RussiaRomania

A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Romania [There is some disagreement over when Gypsies began to enter Romania, though most evidence supports Nicolae Gheorghe’s contention that they arrived in Wallachia in the twelfth century and later in Moldavia. Their presence in the region predates the creation of Wallachia in the early fourteenth century by Voivode Basarab, as well as that of Moldavia in the mid-1300s. Known to Hungarian rulers as Cumania, Wallachia and Moldavia initially served as Hungarian outposts against incursions by the Crimean Tatars, successors to the Mongols. The Mongol invasion of southeastern Europe via Russia in 1241–1242 had temporarily halted Hungary’s move into Transylvania and stimulated efforts by Wallachia’s voivode (princes) to assert their independence from Hungary. Moldavia found itself threatened by the Crimean Tatars and by Poland, which desired Moldavia’s strategic trade outlets. Both principalities found themselves increasingly threatened by the region’s new power, Ottoman Turkey, by the end of the fourteenth century, while Wallachia continued to guard against Hungarian incursions. It was in this atmosphere that the earliest concrete evidence of Romanian Gypsies surfaces. On October 3, 1385, a document issued by Voivode [Prince] Dan I (r. 1385–1386) to the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at Tismana confirmed an earlier gift of 40 Roma families to the Monastery of St. Anthony at Vodita from his uncle, Voivode Vladislav.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and RussiaRomania

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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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[There is some disagreement over when Gypsies began to enter Romania, though most evidence supports Nicolae Gheorghe’s contention that they arrived in Wallachia in the twelfth century and later in Moldavia. Their presence in the region predates the creation of Wallachia in the early fourteenth century by Voivode Basarab, as well as that of Moldavia in the mid-1300s. Known to Hungarian rulers as Cumania, Wallachia and Moldavia initially served as Hungarian outposts against incursions by the Crimean Tatars, successors to the Mongols. The Mongol invasion of southeastern Europe via Russia in 1241–1242 had temporarily halted Hungary’s move into Transylvania and stimulated efforts by Wallachia’s voivode (princes) to assert their independence from Hungary. Moldavia found itself threatened by the Crimean Tatars and by Poland, which desired Moldavia’s strategic trade outlets. Both principalities found themselves increasingly threatened by the region’s new power, Ottoman Turkey, by the end of the fourteenth century, while Wallachia continued to guard against Hungarian incursions. It was in this atmosphere that the earliest concrete evidence of Romanian Gypsies surfaces. On October 3, 1385, a document issued by Voivode [Prince] Dan I (r. 1385–1386) to the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at Tismana confirmed an earlier gift of 40 Roma families to the Monastery of St. Anthony at Vodita from his uncle, Voivode Vladislav.1]

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