604 Roma officially live in Georgia.[1]

Many Georgian Roma live in Tbilisi.[2][3]

A large influx of Romani people into the country happened in the 1930s due to the Great Famine that happened from 1932-1933 in parts of Ukraine and Moldova.[4][5]

There is also a Lom community in Georgia.

References

  1. ↑ Georgian Roma tdi.ge
  2. ↑ "Roma People, a Stateless Community in Georgia". Georgia Today on the Web. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Szakonyi, David (2008). "No Way Out: An Assessment of the Romani Community in Georgia" (PDF). European Centre for Minority Issues Working Paper #39.
  4. ↑ "The Roma Community in Latvia". rm.coe.int.
  5. ↑ “The Gypsies (Dom – Lom – Rom) in Georgia” by Vesselin Popov, 2014, prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.