Rudari
Rudari or Băeși (as it is called in Transylvania ) are a Romanian-speaking minority who are mainly based in Romania , Serbia , Bulgaria , Hungary , Greece , Bosnia , Croatia and Slovakia . Rudari are ethnic Roma and come from Wallachia and Transylvania, where they lived from the 14th to the 19th century and worked as gold washers - often in mines underground. This is where the rarer name aurari goes back. Typical traditional occupations were the carving of wooden household items and the manufacture of bricks .
Suspicions are that it is assimilated Roma, their language ( Romanes have lost) and culture. The majority population uses the derogatory external name Gypsies (Serbia: rumunski Cigani ), which some of them reject with the assertion of their own separate ethnicity apart from the Roma groups. This interpretation is supported by some ethnologists who see themselves as tsiganologists .
The origin of the Rudari is not exactly clear. Research suggests, however, that the assimilation thesis is incorrect and that it may be an indigenous people , which over the centuries has been referred to as the Roma group due to their similar appearance and isolation. It is believed that they are descendants of the dark-skinned inhabitants of Moesia (today's Serbia), who speak their own Romanian dialect, Moeso-Romanian.
literature
- Corinna Leschber: The Rudari in Serbia. Field research on language use, specifics, language mix, archaisms. Online (PDF; 631 kB) In: Wolfgang Dahmen, Petra Himstedt-Vaid, Gerhard Ressel (Eds.): Crossing borders - Traditions and identities in Southeast Europe. Festschrift for Gabriella Schubert. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05792-9 . Overall title: Balkanological Publications, Vol. 45. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 338–351, ISSN 0170-1533 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Bengelstorf: The "other gypsies". On the ethnicity of the Rudari and Bajeschi in Southeast Europe. Eudora, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-938533-29-1 .