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2 unusual facts about Romani


Francisca Cortés Picazo

Francisca Cortés Picazo (born 20 May 1955), more commonly known as "La Paca", is a Spanish drug lord, and matriarch of the Romani drug clan known as "La Paca" clan.

Manoush

Marica Nicole Barandyai-Rani, born probably May 1975 in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, is an actress, singer and songwriter of Romani origin.


Alma de buxo

In this album, important artists such as Uxía Senlle, Kepa Junkera and Rodrigo Romaní have made their contributions.

Angloromani language

Around 1873, Romani personal pronouns became inconsistently marked, according to Leland, who also notes that case distinction began fading overall, and gender marking also disappeared.

Archie San Romani

San Romani placed 4th in the 1500 meters at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and set a world record at 2000 meters the following year.

Bab al-Huta

It is home to the Dom Romani community of the Old City, known in Arabic as al-Nawar, led by mukhtar Abed-Alhakim Mohammed Deeb Salim.

Béla Babai

Babai grew up in a Romani area near his birthplace and he learned to play the violin at a young age.

Boban Marković

Boban Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бобан Марковић) is a Serbian Romani trumpet player and brass ensemble leader from Vladičin Han, frequently recognized as the greatest trumpet player to emerge from the Balkans.

Bronisława Wajs

Zoli, the fourth novel of the Irish-born American writer Colum McCann follows the life of Marienka Novotna, nicknamed "Zoli", a fictional Slovak Romani woman.

Catalan rumba

The Catalan rumba originated in the Catalan Romani communities in the Gràcia, carrer (street) de la Cera del Raval and Hostafrancs neighborhoods.

Ceferino

Ceferino Giménez Malla (1861–1936), Spanish Roman Catholic catechist and activist for Spanish Romani causes

Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest

The broadcaster chose Romani band Gipsy.cz in January 2009 to compete in Moscow – the band had previously competed in the two previous national finals, coming both times in the top three.

Devla

Devla (also called Devel, Dol and Del) is the name of God in the Romani religion.

Fanfare Ciocărlia

Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Balkan Brass Band/Romani brass band (not to be confused with Romanian) from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini.

Fuhlsbüttel

Most of the inmates were Communists, Social Democrats and other political opponents of Nazism, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Romani, homosexual men and others whom the regime wanted to lock up.

Gypsy music

Gypsy music, also known as Gypsy style, Romani-related music played in a characteristic gypsy style and Romani music, the original music of the Romani people

Hipólito Lázaro

Lázaro created the tenor roles of Mascagni's Parisina (1913, Scala) and Il piccolo Marat (1921, Costanzi), and Romani's Fedra (1915, Costanzi).

Jena West station

The deportation of Jews, Sinti and Romani during the Second World War is commemorated by a flower-decked plaque at the track-side entrance of the entrance building.

Jimmy Rosenberg

He was initially active in the Romani (Gypsy) cultural center of Sinti, and was inspired by his relative Stochelo Rosenberg, after the release of his trio's album "Seresta" (Hot Club Records, 1989).

John Dyneley Prince

Prince had a strong interest in foreign languages as a child, acquiring basic skills in speaking the Romani and Shelta languages by the age of 12, after reading Charles Godfrey Leland's ethnographic accounts of the Gypsies.

Koschei

In The Sandman: Fables and Reflections, Koschei's emerald heart (or, more likely a piece of green glass being passed off as such) passes into the possession of a Romani trader, then a werewolf, and finally Baba Yaga.

Luca Cancellari

Admirable icons that ended up in Western Europe after the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, like the Madonna Nicopeia in St Mark's Basilica in Venice, the Madonna di San Luca in the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca in Bologna, the Madonna Salus Populi Romani in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and other with Greek inscriptions of that period are attributed to him.

Ludi Romani

In all his other books, however, Livy observes a distinction which has been pointed out by Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (Parerga zu Plautus, &c. p. 290), that ludi magni is the term applied to extraordinary games originating in a vow (ludi votivi), while ludi Romani is that applied to the games when they were established as annual (ludi stati).

Marzahn

Marzahn was the site of a labour camp (today a water treatment plant), where Romani were interned from July 16, 1936 on, two weeks prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, away from visitor's eyes.

Mirijevo

In early 2000s, various alleys of the Orlovska street were named after people who were connected to Romani people, either by their descent, work, etc.: Django Reinhardt, Yul Brynner, Rabindranath Tagore, Jovan Janićijević Burduš, etc.

Narikurava

As per a theory propounded by Werth in 1966 and Fraser, authorities on the gypsies of Europe, believes that the Domar are the ancestors of the Romani people and therefore, the Narikuravas are related to the Romani.

O with diaeresis

O with diaeresis (Latin) (Ö, ö), a letter in Latin alphabets such as Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Swedish, Romani, Turkish, Azerbaijani and Tajik

Ordines Romani

The Ordines Romani (Latin for Roman Orders) are collections of documents that are the rubrics for various liturgical services, including the early Medieval Mass, of the Roman Rite.

Paul Laymann

At the instance of Bishop Heinrich von Knöringen of Augsburg, Laymann wrote Pacis compositio inter Principes et Ordines Imperii Romani Catholicos atque Augustanæ Confessionis adhærentes (Dillingen, 1629), an elaborate work of 658 pages, explaining the value and extent of the Religious Peace of Augsburg, effected by King Ferdinand I in 1555.

Rab Howell

Howell was born, and lived as a child, in a Romani caravan in Sheffield where his father was a horse dealer and sold pots and pans.

Rokker Radio

The show was first produced by Karen Shrosbery, then Paul Scoins, David Landau and Victoria Cook and was presented by Romani journalist Jake Bowers

Romani people in Croatia

Maria Theresa and Joseph II with their regulations from 1761, 1767 and 1783 forbade Romani nomadic lifestyle, forced them to accept a local clothing code and language, made state regulations on personal and family names and they limited their choice of profession.

Romani people in France

Reuters reported that a charter plane flew 240 Romani, including children, back to Bucharest, Romania, from Lyon.

Salvadore Cammarano

Medea (Saverio Mercadante), from an original libretto by Felice Romani

Shawl

However, they became part of folk dress in a number of places including Germany, the Near East, various parts of Latin America, and Spain where they became a part of Romani (gitana) dress especially in Andalusia and Madrid.

Svetla Vassileva

Co-author of "Concept for the development of public preschool education in Bulgaria", "Concept for the socialization of socially disadvantaged Romani children” (under the auspices of UNICEF), "White Paper on Pravets" (2010) and the book "Pravets.

Szczurowa massacre

Between ten and twenty families of settled Romani had lived in Szczurowa for generations, alongside ethnic Poles with whom they had friendly and neighborly relations.

The Big Issue

By 2011, around half of Big Issue sellers in the north of England were of Romani origin, many of whom having migrated from Romania and Bulgaria.

The Holocaust in Ukraine

According to Ohlendorf at his trial, "the Einsatzgruppen had the mission to protect the rear of the troops by killing the Jews, Romani, Communist functionaries, active Communists, uncooperative slavs, and all persons who would endanger the security."

Timeline of Romani history

1498: Romani settlement in the Americas begins, when four Romanies accompany Christopher Columbus on his third voyage.

The academy was co-founded by Rajko Đurić, a Serbian Romani writer and academic who is also its first president, and received initial supporting funds from the German Heinrich Böll Foundation.

U with diaeresis

U with diaeresis (Latin) (Ü, ü) - an Estonian, Romani, Hungarian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen letter

Ustaše Militia

The Defence Brigades engaged in operations against both the Chetniks and Partisans, engaged in mass terror against the Serbian, Jewish and Romani segments of the NDH population, and administered the Ustaša concentration camps, including Jasenovac.

Vardo

Vardo (gypsy wagon), the traditional horse-drawn wagon used by the English Romani Gypsies

Zargari

Zargari people, a Romani ethnic group in Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey


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