Review article
The Roma in the Croatian Lands in the 14th and 15th Centuries
Danijel Vojak
orcid.org/0000-0003-2545-2225
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia
Neven Kovačev
Abstract
In the paper the authors give an account of the history of the Roma in the Croatian lands in the Late Medieval Period. The account of the life of the Roma in Dubrovnik and Zagreb is given, as well as the overview of the historical sources that provide information on the life of the Roma in other parts of Croatia. While analyzing the records that provide information on the life of the Roma in the late medieval Zagreb, the authors critically review the historiography on the subject and cast doubt on several ingrained interpretations, thus creating a somewhat more precise overview of the life of the Roma in Zagreb in the 14th and 15th centuries. In Dubrovnik, as well as in Zagreb, the life of the Roma was completely integrated in the life of the city, and it is interesting to note that the available historical sources do not mention the nomadism of the Roma. In the Croatian lands, as well as in the rest of Europe in the aforementioned period, the life of the Roma had not yet been marked by the exclusion and the conflicts with the dominant population.
Keywords
the Roma; Late Medieval Period; Dubrovnik; Zagreb
Hrčak ID:
200492
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2017.
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