![]() ![]() “Early in their Balkan existence…the Gypsies were wanted…not for their crimes, but for their talents. Some 12 million Gypsies (or Roma) now live in Europe, making them among the continent’s largest minority populations. With the coming of the Seljuk Turks and the Ottoman Empire, many more moved north across Bosporus into Europe to wander among the peoples of the Balkans and even further north and west. Then onto the Anatolian steppes, the land now called Turkey but once part of the vast Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire. First, out of India into the Caucasus and Armenia-the mountainous lands between the Black and Caspian Seas. ![]() ![]() For a thousand years the Gypsies wandered. ![]()
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