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Romani people are
known by a
variety of names,
mostly as Gypsies, Roma,
Tsinganoi, Bohémiens, and
various linguistic variations of
these names.
There are...
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Romani people of Greece, or Romá (Gr****: Ρομάνι/Ρομά), are
called Tsinganoi (Gr****: Τσιγγάνοι),
Athinganoi (Αθίγγανοι), or the more
derogatory term...
- word.
Another designation of the Roma is
Cingane (alternatively Çingene,
Tsinganoi, Zigar, Zigeuner, Tschingaren),
likely deriving from the
Persian word...
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religious practices of the sect. The po****r Gr**** name for the Roma,
Tsinganoi, may have been
original and
unrelated to the Athinganoi, with the ****ociation...
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meaning "untouchables",
compare the
modern Gr****
designations Τσιγγάνοι (
Tsingánoi), Αθίγγανοι (Athínganoi).
People often use the term "Rom",
although the...
