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This was due to the fact that, at the time, U.S. legislation prevented entry to "Gypsies", making it problematic for those who were perceived to be easily identifiable as Romani by their appearance. [42] In 1999, the United States pledged to take up to 20,000 Kosovan refugees, many of them were Roma. [43]
Levi Stanley was the son of Owen Stanley (1794 – 21 February 1860) and Harriet Worden (1793 – 30 August 1857), who were heads of the family before him and his wife. Levi had a brother named Benjamin, who settled down in New England. Benjamin was disowned by his father, and was said to have had a curse out on him and the next generations ...
Hungarian-Slovak Roma or Balshade [1] immigrated to the United States in the late 19th century, many from (Sáros in Hungary and Zemplín counties) Košice, Slovakia.They settled in the cities of Braddock, Homestead, Johnstown, and Uniontown, Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit and Delray, Michigan; Gary, Indiana; Chicago, and New York City and Las Vegas. [2]
In the English language, Romani people have long been known by the exonym Gypsies or Gipsies, [91] which many Roma consider a racial slur. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] The attendees of the first World Romani Congress in 1971 unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Romani, including "Gypsy". [ 94 ]
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (abbreviated to GRT) is an umbrella term used in the United Kingdom to represent several diverse ethnic groups which have a shared history of nomadism. In the phrase GRT, The Gypsy grouping encompasses Romani subgroups that have resided in Britain since the 16th century, the Romanichal (English Gypsies) and Kale (Welsh ...
As early as 1671, French colonists called the river Miami du Lac 'Miami of the Lake' (in contrast to the Miami of the Ohio or the Great Miami River, called Ahsenisiipi in the Miami-Illinois language). Maumee is an anglicized spelling of the Ottawa or Odawa name for the Miami tribe, Maamii. The Odawa had a village at the mouth of the Maumee ...
Albany, Ohio. Coordinates: 39°13′28″N 82°11′51″W. Albany, Ohio. Village. A view of Albany with State Route 681 in the background. Location of Albany, Ohio. Location of Albany in Athens County. Coordinates: 39°13′28″N 82°11′51″W / 39.22444°N 82.19750°W / 39.22444; -82.19750. Country.
Kuskusky, also known as the Kuskuskies Towns, Kuskuskie Towns, or Kuskuskies' Indian Town, with a wide variety of other spellings, were several Native American communities inhabited near New Castle, Mahoning, and Edinburg, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio, during the mid-18th century.