Game about HISTORY of RROMA

ARRANGE CHRONOLOGICALLY ON THE MAP THE TRAVEL OF RROMA THROUGH HISTORY, UNTIL NOWADAYS.

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The Rroma left India. There are different theories on why they left. One theory is that they were artists given to the king of Persia as a gift but they might have also been soldiers.

The Rroma came to Europe in the Byzantine Empire. The first records about them in now Istanbul are from around 1100.

By the 14th century, Rroma had reached the Balkans where they worked as blacksmiths as well as in other trades.

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The Ottoman Empire expanded into the Balkans in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the Ottoman Empire Rroma lived free of persecution and had a variety of jobs. Some converted to Islam.

The first record of Rroma people in Romania is from 1385. They were held as slaves until the 1800s.

In the 15th century, Rroma arrived in Central and Western Europe. They often presented as pilgrims from Egypt. Some travelled from Persia to North Africa and reached Spain from there.

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In the 15th and 16th centuries, Rroma were expelled from many countries. (For example, from the Holy Roman Empire in 1498, claiming they were Turkish spies).

From the 16th century, there were more brutal repressions in Western Europe. E.g. in the Netherlands Rroma were hunted.

In the late 18th century Rroma in Hungary and Austria were forced to settle down and assimilate. They were not allowed to speak their language or wear traditional clothes and young Rroma children were given to non-Rroma families. Other countries passed similar laws.

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Rroma people were heavily affected by the Holocaust. The Nazis put them in concentration or extermination camps wanting to exterminate their whole ethnicity. It is unclear how many Rroma were killed, with numbers ranging between 200,000 - 2,500,000 victims.

The genocide of Rroma by the Nazis was ignored/denied for a long time. It was first acknowledged by a German chancellor in 1982.

After WWII, many Rroma lived under communism in Eastern Europe. They were relocated (e.g. from Slovakia to Czechia) and the ones that traveled were forced to settle down.

Nowadays, worldwide exist 12 million Rroma people. Large numbers live in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, the Czech and Slovak republics, and Hungary.