Despite a 1,000-year separation from India, Roma still practice 'shaktism', the worship of a god through his female consort | |
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There are officially about 500,000 Roma in Turkey |
Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition.
12316, 318 : "Religion: An underlay of Hinduism with an overlay of either Christianity or Islam host country religion "; "Roma religious beliefs are rooted in Hinduism | 's 1987 estimate for "all Gypsies in the world" was 6 to 11 million |
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Webley, Kayla October 13, 2010 | Today, estimates put the number of Roma in the U |
The Special Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality estimates the number of "ciganos" Romanis in Brazil at 800,000 2011.
25The Spanish government estimates the number of Gitanos at a maximum of 650,000 | The Romani population in France is officially estimated at around 500,000 |
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Hellenic Republic National Commission For Human Rights | Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development 1998 ; pp |
The 2010 Brazilian National Census encountered gypsy camps in 291 of Brazil's 5,565 municipalities.
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