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Chronology

Sinti and Roma: A European History

 

Arrival in the Byzantine Empire, slavery in the Romanian principalities


Roma in the Balkans during the Ottoman Empire.


A shatra (village) founded by Roma, as depicted in an 1860 engraving by Dieudonné Lancelot.

Arrival in the Byzantine Empire, slavery in the Romanian principalities

     

Arrival in the West


Illustration of Diebold Schilling the Elder (1485) Roma, described as 'baptized pagans' in Bern. Amtliche Spiezer Chronik, p. 749.

Arrival in the West

       

Arrival in Italy


Antonio Solario in a portrait typical of the era (ca 1465-1530).


Boccaccio Boccaccino, "Gypsy Girl", 1516-1518 ca., Tempera on board, 24x19 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Arrival in Italy

     

Repressive measures in Europe


The Suppliants: Expulsion of the Gypsies from Spain by Edwin Long. Royal Holloway, University of London. Oil on canvas, 1872. © Royal Holloway, University of London

Repressive measures in Europe

   

Repressive measures in Italy


Naples, Gypsies locksmiths, K. Stieler, E. Paulus, W. Kaden, From the Alps to Etna, 1878.

Repressive measures in Italy

   

Repressive measures in Milan, Italy


Bando contra li zingari published in Bologna on September 3, 1592 decreeing the expulsion of gypsies ("zingari") from the city

Repressive measures in Milan, Italy

   
 

Nineteenth and twentieth centuries


Vincent Van Gogh, The gypsy caravan near Arles, 1888


Le Petit Journal, November 12, 1905, Paris (France).

Nineteenth and twentieth centuries

       

Anthropometric identity book, early twentieth century, France. Source: Impagliazzo M., “Il caso zingari”, Milano, Leonardo International, 2008.