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A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and RussiaYugoslavia

A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Yugoslavia [The Roma of the southern Slavic lands and Albania entered the region in much the same fashion as did other Gypsy groups in the Balkans during the Middle Ages. The first recorded mention of them in the region was in Macedonia in 1289, though, like many early accounts about the presence of Gypsies in the Balkans, these tales are often shrouded in myth. The early fourteenth-century Bulgarian version of the Life of SaintBarbarus, for example, indicates the existence of Gypsies in Albania and in Nis, Serbia. Other claims of an early Gypsy presence in the area, particularly in Macedonia, center around speculation that Byzantine references to Egyptian acrobats who moved through Macedonia might have been Gypsies, while Macedonian Gypsy folktales trace their roots much further back, to Alexander the Great, and claim the legendary conqueror as “one of their own blood.”1 By the mid-fourteenth century, Turkish Gypsies had settled in Serbia, where they became known as the Majstori or master craftsmen, because of their talents in a wide range of skills and trades.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and RussiaYugoslavia

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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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195 –233
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10.1007/978-1-137-10596-7_6
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[The Roma of the southern Slavic lands and Albania entered the region in much the same fashion as did other Gypsy groups in the Balkans during the Middle Ages. The first recorded mention of them in the region was in Macedonia in 1289, though, like many early accounts about the presence of Gypsies in the Balkans, these tales are often shrouded in myth. The early fourteenth-century Bulgarian version of the Life of SaintBarbarus, for example, indicates the existence of Gypsies in Albania and in Nis, Serbia. Other claims of an early Gypsy presence in the area, particularly in Macedonia, center around speculation that Byzantine references to Egyptian acrobats who moved through Macedonia might have been Gypsies, while Macedonian Gypsy folktales trace their roots much further back, to Alexander the Great, and claim the legendary conqueror as “one of their own blood.”1 By the mid-fourteenth century, Turkish Gypsies had settled in Serbia, where they became known as the Majstori or master craftsmen, because of their talents in a wide range of skills and trades.2]

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