romani

I'm not sure why, but I've always been fascinated by remnants - both remnant populations of ethnic/linguistic/religious groups, as well as remnants of 'resistance' that continue for longer than they would be expected to, like the post-WWII Japanese holdouts for example. However, in this thread...

Warsaw - April 27, 1937 In a ceremony before a crowd of thousands in the National Army Stadium, influential Romani leader Janusz Kwiek is crowned "King of the Gypsies" by the Archbishop of Warsaw, taking the royal name of Janos I and announcing his intention to establish a homeland for the...

What if a Roma State, the Roma being victims of the Holocaust just as much as the Jewish population of Europe, is established in either Europe, being the contemporary home of the Roma, or India, being the ancestral homeland of the Roma in Antiquity. Where would such a state be located exactly in...

Your challenge is to have a Romani polity exist somewhere for some period of time. It doesn't have to be particularly large, successful or long-lasting, it just has to spend some time in existence.

Where in this wonderful world we are all forced to call home would make a suitable home for the Romani peoples, and what circumstances would need to change to allow for such a change?

What if Stalin decided to establish a Romani ASSR that after the fall of the Soviet Union later became an independent state? And which territory would have been suitable for this ATL Romani ASSR aside from possibly the following: Kaliningrad Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, part of the Odessa Oblast...