Romanistan

Romanistan, Romastan or Romanestan is the name of a proposed country, for the Romani people.^[1]

Romanistan is generally understood as a cultural and historical presence centralised in the Balkans of southeastern Europe.^[2]^[3]^[vague] The creation of an autonomous region for the Romani was suggested by the leaders of a party in North Macedonia known as the Party for the Complete Emancipation of Roma (and also reportedly by a Romani party in Hungary) in the early 1990s, at Šuto Orizari.^[4] The proposal of such a region in North Macedonia was also briefly considered by Josip Tito, leader of Socialist Yugoslavia but the idea never materialized.^[5] Several times during the 1920s and 1930s, ideas of an autonomous Romani state within the USSR were raised. Such efforts were dropped by 1936–37.^[6] In the early 1950s, Romani leaders petitioned the United Nations for the creation of their own state, but their petition was rejected.^[1] Given the South Asian origins of the Romani, Romanistan has even been envisaged as being in South Asia, within the borders of the Indian subcontinent.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b James Minahan (1996). Nations Without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements. Greenwood Press. p. 464. ISBN 978-0-313-28354-3.
^ Radical, Norwich (31 January 2024). "THERE IS NO ROMA NATION". The Norwich Radical. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
^ Xenos, Nicholas (22 August 1996). "For and against Romanistan". London Review of Books. Vol. 18, no. 16. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
^ Charles Vance; Yongsun Paik (2006). Managing a Global Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities in International Human Resource Management. M.E. Sharpe. p. 760. ISBN 978-0-7656-2016-3.
^ Crowe, David M. (2000). "Muslim Roma in the Balkans". Nationalities Papers. 28 (1): 93–128. doi:10.1080/00905990050002470. ISSN 0090-5992.
^ O'Keeffe, Brigid. "The Roma homeland that never was".
^ Mieder, Wolfgang; Scrase, David (2001). Reflections on the Holocaust: Festschrift for Raul Hilberg on His Seventy-fifth Birthday. Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-9707237-4-1.

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[Minahan1996-1] James Minahan (1996). Nations Without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements. Greenwood Press. p. 464. ISBN 978-0-313-28354-3.

[2] Radical, Norwich (31 January 2024). "THERE IS NO ROMA NATION". The Norwich Radical. Retrieved 23 March 2025.

[3] Xenos, Nicholas (22 August 1996). "For and against Romanistan". London Review of Books. Vol. 18, no. 16. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 23 March 2025.

[VancePaik2006-4] Charles Vance; Yongsun Paik (2006). Managing a Global Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities in International Human Resource Management. M.E. Sharpe. p. 760. ISBN 978-0-7656-2016-3.

[:0-5] Crowe, David M. (2000). "Muslim Roma in the Balkans". Nationalities Papers. 28 (1): 93–128. doi:10.1080/00905990050002470. ISSN 0090-5992.

[6] O'Keeffe, Brigid. "The Roma homeland that never was".

[7] Mieder, Wolfgang; Scrase, David (2001). Reflections on the Holocaust: Festschrift for Raul Hilberg on His Seventy-fifth Birthday. Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-9707237-4-1.

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