Ashkali (also Ashkali, Aschkali, Hashkali, Aškalije, Ashkaliјe, Haškalije, Khashkaliјe ) are Albanian-speaking Gypsies of the Balkan Peninsula, profess Islam . Identify themselves as the so-called Egyptian or Palestinian branch of the Gypsies. Ashkali's self-name goes back to the city of Ashkelon , Israel , from which, presumably, this group of Gypsies arrived. [2] Therefore, neighboring nations often call them simply Egyptians (where the local truncated versions came from: gupti, guptsy, yifty, etc.) are one of the most peculiar and at the same time poorly studied subethnic groups among Muslim Gypsies .
| Ashkali | |
|---|---|
| Abundance and area | |
| Total: 30-50 thousand people | |
| |
| Tongue | Albanian , Serbian , Turkish |
| Religion | Islam |
| Related peoples | Gypsies |
Resettlement
Most modern Ashkali live in the part of the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo (15,436 people according to the 2011 census [1] ); the native language of Ashkali is mainly Albanian , and to a lesser extent Serbian , Turkish or Greek . Despite Albanization , the Ashkali themselves continue to keep their communities closed, avoiding direct everyday contacts with Albanians and other Balkan Gypsies. On the eve of the Kosovo war of independence, the Ashkali mostly shared the position of the Kosovo Albanians, but after independence, representatives of the Albanian majority began to put a certain ethnic pressure on Roma [3] . In the Republic of Macedonia, according to the 2002 census, there were 3,713 “Egyptian Gypsies”, in the Republic of Serbia - 814 people, in the Republic of Montenegro, according to the 2010 census - 2,054 people. In the last two countries, the Ashkali are mostly refugees from Kosovo. Special mention should be made of the situation in Greece, where the nationality in population censuses has not been indicated for a long time. Gypsy diasporas in rural areas of Greece are very significant. Among them are visible and so-called yifty (in Egyptian in Greek).
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Data access. Population. Display data in the selected year (2011). Kosovo Detail municipality. Dragash (English) (inaccessible link) . Kosovo Agency of Statistics (2012). Archived April 4, 2014. (Checked March 25, 2014)
- ↑ Indo-Aryan group. Gypsies
- ↑ amnesty international | Archive