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“Britain's richest gypsy” Alfie Best has revealed the brutal daily routine that has helped him forge a billion-pound empire. From humble beginnings in a caravan to losing everything in a recession and earning it back again, it's not been a straight ride to the top for Alfie.
Some of the better known areas of work that Gypsies and Travellers are involved in include seasonal agricultural work, motor trading and tree-felling. Some are employed as academics, teachers and public servants and in this way they add to the local economy.
Roma, singular Rom, also called Romany or Gypsies (considered pejorative), an ethnic group of traditionally itinerant people who originated in northern India but live in modern times worldwide, principally in Europe.
Romani, the common language of the Roma, the Sinti, the Kale and other European popula- tion groups summarised by the pejorative denomination gypsies, belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family and is the only New-Indo-Aryan language spo- ken exclusively outside of the Indian subcontinent.
Gypsies have been living in various regions of Central Asia for a very long time.”At the present time, the majority are settled on the temtory of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They do not comprise large compact groups, but rather individual families among the general population.
About half of all European Roma lived in eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union and Romania. Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria also had large Romani communities. In prewar Germany there were at most 35,000 Roma, most of whom held German citizenship. In Austria, there were approximately 11,000 Roma.
Formally, Islam is the religion that these communities align themselves with, and the people are recognized for their staunch preservation of the Romani language and identity. Most Eastern European Roma are Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Muslim.
There is no king or queen. Traveller families often have someone that makes the main decisions that will affect the family as a whole, and is usually a patriarch or matriarch of the family. This is often the same for Romany people, who have no tradition of royalty.
How do the girls stay so slim? It turned out that just like their romany cousins across the pond, these romanichal gypsy girls eat a lot of malt vinegar and salt. However, unlike the Brits they don't sprinkle them on their chips (fries): they put them on fruit.
To earn a living today, gypsies might weave furniture, make bricks, resell clothing and goods, or trade horses, but employment is typically a side note in their existence. Sources repeatedly underscore the difficulty that the Roma have in obtaining regular work because employers often don't want to hire them.
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Millionaire entrepreneur Alfie Best's chopper - with the registration G-YPSE - was clocked at Seaton Carew Golf Club in Teeside on Tuesday morning. The businessman, whose net worth is £754m placing him at 232nd on the Times 2023 Rich List, was visiting the nearby holiday park home site Sea Breeze, which he owns.
countable noun. A Gypsy is a member of a race of people who travel from place to place, usually in caravans, rather than living in one place. Some Gypsies object to this name, and prefer to be called Romany.
It is a simple car with minimum interference of electricals. There is no power steering, no AC, and no unnecessary electricals. This makes the Gypsy less susceptible to breakdowns even after the abuse of the worst conditions and temperatures.
The Romani people, also referred to as Roma, Sinti or Kale, depending on the sub-group, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group which primarily lives in Europe.
The Romani began to leave India about 1,000 years ago. They probably left to escape the invasion of Afghan general Mahmud of Ghazni early in the 11th century. Mahmud's troops likely pushed the Romani out of northern India and into the area that is now Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.
Genetic studies based on Y-chromosome markers and mitochondrial DNA confirmed the South Asian origin of Roma. Y-chromosome marker M82 (H1a) and mtDNA haplogroups M5a1, M18 and M35b, which are characteristics of South Asian ancestry, are typical in Roma populations [8, 9].
As the Roma traveled, they took the DNA and genetic history that they picked up along the way with them. Consequently, it's not uncommon for a Roma individual to get DNA results that reflect a mix that includes South Asian DNA, Middle Eastern DNA, and one or even several European ethnicities.
Based on genome-wide SNP arrays and whole-genome sequences, it has been determined that the Romani people carry approximately 20–35% South Asian ancestry [4,7], and North-West India constitutes the major source of this component [4,7,54].
While there is no evidence that the Gypsies were Arabs who migrated to India, there is much historical and linguistic evidence of their Indian roots and movement to Persia, as well as later relocations to and within Europe and the Middle East. What remains unclear is exactly when or why they moved.
For centuries numerous Romani communities have lived in the Balkans. Their members are referred to as “Turkish Gypsies” (турски цигани, τουρκο-γύφτοι, ţigani turci and other, similar names) by the surrounding population. In many cases the Gypsies themselves use the same appellation.