- Early modern history[edit]. Gypsy Family in Prison, 1864 painting by Carl d´Unker. An actual imprisoned family in Germany served as the models.
- However, you may know them by their more colloquial name, gypsies. For many, the word “gypsies” conjures up specific images and characteristics.
- The largest population of Gypsies now lives in Eastern Europe, however communities of Gypsies can be found in many countries around the world.
- Gypsy history remained unknown for centuries, largely because they had no written language, and strangely enough, they had forgotten where they came from.
- They tend to live simultaneously in two different worlds: the exterior imposed non-Gypsy world and the internal constructed Gypsy world.
- Kelime ve terimleri çevir ve farklı aksanlarda sesli dinleme. gypsy çingene gypsy dancing çingene dansı gypsy roman gypsy chief ne demek.
- They came as Christian penitents and claimed to be exiles from a land called “Little Egypt.” Europeans called them “Egyptians,” which became corrupted as “Gypsies.”
- They called them "gypcian," a shortened form of the Middle English "Egypcien," as a result, and eventually this became the modern word "gypsy."
- Who are the Gypsies and what do they believe? The term "gypsies" refers to an ethnic group of people called the Roma or the Romani (also spelled Romany).
- Our English name of Gypsy stems from the word Egyptian, as many believed that their darker skin tones indicated an Egyptian origin.
