The first full-length book on this people's origins was written in the 1780s by Heinrich Grellmann, and the reports of an agency that gathered information on them were collected in a 1905 book by Alfred Dillmann.
The first full-length book on this people's origins was written in the 1780s by Heinrich Grellmann, and the reports of an agency that gathered information on them were collected in a 1905 book by Alfred Dillmann. Writers like Jean-Paul ClÃ©bert associated a semi- mythological figure called the "phuri dai," or Old Mother, with these people. When writing about these people in 1863, Richard Liebich coined the phrase "life unworthy of life." A 1971 international conference of these people adopted the national anthem DÂželem DÂželem, and a green and blue flag with a red, sixteen-spoked chakra. According to legend, one of them made the nails used to crucify Jesus. They are sometimes broken into three confederations - the Kalderash, Gitanos, and the Manush.  The genocide of these people during World War II isknown as the Porajmos, or the Devouring. For 10 points, name these itinerant people now found mostly in Europe.
The first full-length book on this people's origins was written in the 1780s by Heinrich Grellmann, and the reports of an agency that gathered information on them were collected in a 1905 book by Alfred Dillmann.
Romanies [or Gypsy or  Gypsies or Sinti or Gitanos or  Gitans or Zigeuner or Tsiganes or Cingaros]