Romani people in Georgia (country)

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604 Roma officially live in Georgia.[1]

Many Georgian Roma live in Tbilisi.[2][3]

A large influx of Romani people into the country happened in the 1930s due to the Great Famine that happened from 1932-1933 in parts of Ukraine and Moldova.[4][5]

There is also a Lom community in Georgia.

References

  1. ^ Georgian Roma tdi.ge
  2. ^ "Roma People, a Stateless Community in Georgia". Georgia Today on the Web. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  3. ^ Szakonyi, David (2008). "No Way Out: An Assessment of the Romani Community in Georgia" (PDF). European Centre for Minority Issues Working Paper #39.
  4. ^ "The Roma Community in Latvia". rm.coe.int.
  5. ^ “The Gypsies (Dom – Lom – Rom) in Georgia” by Vesselin Popov, 2014, prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies