AHC: A homeland for the Roma.

Probably your best bet would be to (a) increase the numbers of Roma, and (b) have some king or government settle them in one of his border provinces to boost defences there. Eventually this province manages to secede, and bam, you've got your independent Roma homeland.
 

Cosmedian

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I really like the idea of a Romani Prussia. After all, East Prussia was basically emptied by the time the Soviets steamrolled in, and they had a habit of creating ethnic zones... hm...
 
Probably your best bet would be to (a) increase the numbers of Roma, and (b) have some king or government settle them in one of his border provinces to boost defences there. Eventually this province manages to secede, and bam, you've got your independent Roma homeland.

Here's an idea: why not Moldova(a former Soviet Republic IOTL)? At various points in it's history, it was a border province of a kind, of either Romania, Russia, or even the Ottoman Empire.
 
I've periodically pondered the idea of a colonial power which adapts the idea of penal colonies to other undesirables in their society, namely those ethnic and cultural groups looked upon as undesirable by the government.
The goal of this on their part being more the homogenization of the homeland than great profitability on the part of the colonies.

Then again, places where you find lots of Romas weren't exactly colonial powers.
 
missing the point ...

... the Romani ... or "gypsy's" meaning they didn't have a homeland
Its a cultural lifestyle ...
so saying here's a piece of land,
this is your homeland ...
means nothing
 
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