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Show Gypsies Count in Greek, Speak Many Greek Words The fact that gypsies all over the world count in Greek and use numerous nu-merous Greek words further substantiates sub-stantiates the theory of their early arrival in the Balkan region. For "seven, eight nine, ten" gypsies say "efta, ofto, enea, deca." In Macedonia at this period also were numerous Phoenician and Egyptian slaves who worked in Alexander's arsenals. Undoubtedly the gypsies intermarried inter-married to some extent with the Egyptians, notes a writer in toe Chicago Tribune, and when their descendants later set forth on their wanderings, still trying to forget their miserable days in India, they told people that they were from Egypt Their tendency toward sleight-of-hand, fortune telling, and other magic which Europeans associated asso-ciated with Egypt undoubtedly gave them their most usual name of gypsies. Pharons (from Pharaohs) is another of their appellations. Their association with Rumanians probably accounts for toe names Rom and Romany, so frequently applied ap-plied to them. Other names for gypsies are Giianos. Zmganes, Ca-los. Ca-los. Bohemians, Tz.gar,e, Z.euiier. Czigany. |