Roma are a subgroup of the Romani people The Romani are an ethnic group living mostly in Europe, who trace their origins to medieval India[1][2] (also known as Gypsies According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used in English in 1514, with several more uses in the same century, and that both Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare used the word), who live primarily in Central Central Europe is the region lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. The term and widespread interest in the region itself came back into fashion after the end of the Cold War, which, along with the Iron Curtain, had divided Europe politically into East and West, splitting Central Europe in half and Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a region lying in the Eastern part of Europe. The term is highly context-dependent and even volatile, as there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region". A related UN paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct&, as well as in the Balkans The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km2 (212,000 sq mi) and a population of about 55 million people and Western Anatolia Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising about two-thirds of the modern Republic of Turkey. The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the northeast, the Armenian highland and the Euphrates river to the east, the Mesopotamian plain and Orontes river to the southeast,, and as recent immigrants in Western Europe and the Americas. Roma is also used as a synonym for the whole Romani people.
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The artists of the Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion will include the leading representatives of Roma , Romanichal, Sinti, Kale, Traveller, Manush, Romanisael (some of the related Gypsy- Romani cultures and subgroups ) and other Gypsy artists. ...
