Legend has it that European Gypsies came from Egypt but a new genetic study has shown they came from a small population that emerged from ancestors in India around 1000 years ago. The research, by ...

LUTSK, Ukraine -- The first Romany-language textbook has been published in the northern Ukrainian region of Volyn, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Because the nomadic Roma do not have a written ...

During my annual trips to Romania, I repeatedly came across a conspicuous people with an invisible past. I knew virtually nothing about them, other than that they looked different from other Romanians ...

The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain. By Damian Le Bas. Chatto & Windus; 320 pages; £14.99 DAMIAN LE BAS is caught between two worlds. He grew up in a family of Romany gypsies. His ...