Roma people may refer to
- Romani people The Romani are an ethnic group of Europe tracing their origins to medieval India, an ethnic group with origins in South Asia who are widely dispersed with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in North Africa and the Middle East.
- Roma (Romani subgroup) Roma are a subgroup of the Romani people , who live primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in the Balkans and Western Anatolia, and as recent immigrants in Western Europe and the Americas. Roma is also used as a synonym for the whole Romani people, a subgroup of the Romani people who live primarily in Central and Eastern Europe.
See also
- Names of the Romani people The Romani people are also known by a variety of other names, in English as Roma, Gypsies, or Travellers, historically also as "tinkers" from their common occupation as tinsmiths. In Central and Eastern Europe as Tsigani , in France as gitans besides the dated bohémiens and manouches
- Romani people by country The Romani people are divided into a number of distinct populations, the largest being the Roma, located originally, and currently still mostly, in Central and Eastern Europe
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