Cyganie osiadli w Królestwie Polskim. Próba opisu statystycznego

Gontarek, Alicja

Cyganie osiadli w Królestwie Polskim. Próba opisu statystycznego

Abstract

The article deals with the issue Romani people settled in the Kingdom of Poland based on the first census that was conducted in the Russian empire in 1897. Its analysis allowed to determine the number of settled Romani groups (1061 people),which represented the rural settlement. As far as the population was concerned, the largest settlements were created in the two adjacent governorates – Lublin Governorate and Warsaw Governorate. This group, barely reaching one thousand people, was mostly concentrated on the East bank of the Vistula River. This river, as it turn out, a demarcation line for the Romani colonists, with some exceptions. The further to the West, the numbers of the settlers were lower, and the other way around – the further to the East, the higher the number of the settled Romani people. It is difficult to define occupational, social and religious structure due to lack of relevant data and primarily its fragmentation.