Romania

Romanian Gypsies are a problem. There, I’ve said it. Romanian Gypsies Problem #1: Their name The first problem is with their name: gypsies, from the place name Egypt. In Romanian it’s țigani. But the Romanian Gypsies don’t come from Egypt. They’re Indo-Iranian. Their proper ethnonym is Roma, more technically spelled Rroma. They’re also called Romany. […]

Since buying an apartment in Bucharest in 2006, I spend summers in Romania. Note: My extreme sport is buying and selling property in a language where I am not a native speaker and the currency has an enormous amount of zeroes. I sold my original apartment in 2007, bought another, sold it the next year, […]