Doms in Egypt

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Doms in Egypt
Total population
≈ 100,000
Regions with significant populations
Kawliya

The

Indian Subcontinent, and heavily intermixed with Egyptians. Scholars suggest that their Egyptian admixture later made them known around the world by the vernacular term Gypsies, deriving from the word "Egyptian."[2][3] Though some of the Dom people self-segregated themselves for centuries from the dominant culture of Egypt,[4] historically; Domari in Egypt have intermixed with Egyptians and participated at local musical entertainment at weddings, circumcisions and other celebrations, singing Egyptian traditional songs and dance in return for money. The Dom people in Egypt or Roma Egyptians include subgroups like Nawar, and Ghagar (ghaggar).[5][6]
The Dom in Egypt are
Sunni Muslims and speak Egyptian Arabic also their own Domari language together.[7]

Ottoman sources

Muslim Roma and some other Muslims convert to the Catholic faith in the years 1686 -1713.[10] The Ghagar a subgroup of the Doms in Egypt, tell that some of them went to Hungary.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Romani, Domari in Egypt".
  2. ^ "Gypsies arrived in Europe 1,500 years ago, genetic study says". the Guardian. 7 December 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Gypsy, Domari of Egypt" (PDF). Nehemiahteams.com. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  4. ^ ""Homeless, yet at home": Egypt's Domari Ghagar". Egyptianstreets.com. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  5. ISBN 9781903689059
    . Retrieved 16 July 2022 – via Google Books.
  6. ISBN 0-89789-771-4
    . Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  7. ^ "Doms of Egypt". Peoplegroups.org. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  8. ^ "The Earliest Text in Balkan (Rumelian) Romani: A Passage from Evliya Çelebi's Seyah¢a@t na@meh" (PDF). Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. 1 (1): 1–20. 1991. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  9. S2CID 144321480 – via ResearchGate
    .
  10. ISBN 9783938616321
    . Retrieved 25 July 2022 – via Google Books.
  11. JSTOR 25228684
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