Gypsy Facts for Kids

Gypsy may mean:

Roma people, is a group of people of Indian origin who once came to Egypt and move later to Europe, often living in caravans. More generally, anyone who moves around often. In some circumstances, calling a person a Gypsy might be considered offensive. The groups of people include,
- the Sinti, also a Romani people, mostly living in central Europe.
- Roma in Turkey/Romanlar
- Gitanos (Spanish gypsies) who speak Caló
- "Travellers" found mainly in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States; and
In music:
The Gypsy Kings, a musical group of the 1980s that plays a pop-oriented version of traditional flamenco music (Not to be confused with Ricky Jevon, King of the Gypsies)
Gypsy and the Haylocks, a reggae folk band who were deemed to be the first band to mix both genres in the 1970s. Traditionally from the Cambridgeshire area they were fronted by Oliver Haylock and his half sister Emmly. (Emmly is the cousin of Bubbler Ranx famous for singing on Peter Andre's Mysterious Girl)
Gypsy, a song by Fleetwood Mac
Gypsy, a song by The Moody Blues
Gypsy: A Musical Fable, a musical inspired by the life of Gypsy Rose Lee

In fiction:

Gypsy, a robot character from the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000
Gypsy, a fictional character from DC Comics
Gypsy Moth, a fictional mutant character from Marvel Comics

Other meanings:

Gypsy, West Virginia, USA
Gypsy moth, a destructive insect that causes trees to lose their leaves
Gypsy (software), the first modern document preparation system
Winston "Gypsy" Peters, a Trinidad and Tobago politician and calypsonian
A "gypsy" is a part on a boat windlass designed to haul chain. It may have a groove to enable it to haul rope and chain when it is called a combined gypsy and capstan
Gypsy (elephant) is the name of an elephant given to Michael Jackson by Elizabeth Taylor
The J/ψ particle, a subatomic particle

Images for kids

Three Finnish Romani women in Helsinki, Finland, in 1930s
Gypsies camping. Welsh Romanies near Swansea, 1953
Romani girl
Two Gypsies by Francisco Iturrino
A Roma makes a complaint to a local magistrate in Hungary, by Sándor Bihari, 1886
The migration of the Romanis through the Middle East and Northern Africa to Europe
First arrival of the Romanies outside Bern in the 15th century, described by the chronicler as getoufte heiden ("baptized heathens") and drawn with dark skin and wearing Saracen-style clothing and weapons
An 1852 Wallachian poster advertising an auction of Romani slaves in Bucharest
Sinti and other Romani about to be deported from Germany, 22 May 1940
Münster, Sebastian (1552), "A Gipsy Family", The Cosmographia (facsimile of a woodcut), Basle
Nomadic Roma family traveling in Moldavia, 1837
Christian Romanies during the pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in France, 1980s
Two Orthodox Christian Romanies in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Romani and bear (Belgrade, Banovo brdo, 1980s)
Members of the Cofradía de los Gitanos parading the "throne" of Mary of the O during the Holy Week in Malaga, Spain
Gypsy fortune-teller in Poland, by Antoni Kozakiewicz, 1884
Muslim Romanies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (around 1900)
27 June 2009: Fanfare Ciocărlia live in Athens, Greece
Street performance during the Khamoro World Roma Festival in Prague, 2007
Deportation of Roma from Asperg, Germany, 1940 (photograph by the Rassenhygienische Forschungsstelle)
Distribution of the Romani people in Europe (2007 Council of Europe "average estimates", totalling 9.8 million)
Antiziganist protests in Sofia, 2011
Paris Bordone, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt c. 1530, Elizabeth, at right, is shown as a Romani fortune-teller
August von Pettenkofen: Gypsy Children (1885), Hermitage Museum
Vincent van Gogh: The Caravans – Gypsy Camp near Arles (1888, oil on canvas)
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Nicolae Grigorescu Gypsy from Boldu (1897), Art Museum of Iași

Gypsy facts for kids

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