where did the roma people come from?
Romani people
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 Actors portraying Roma have seen multiple stage award wins and nominations — both Mantegna and Schreiber received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for their depictions , while Shepherd earned a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal . In film , Pacino received nominations for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture . 

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 Romani people drove steel or iron needles into a corpse 's heart and placed bits of steel in the mouth , over the eyes , ears and between the fingers at the time of burial . They also placed hawthorn in the corpse 's sock or drove a hawthorn stake through the legs . In a 16th @-@ century burial near Venice , a brick forced into the mouth of a female corpse has been interpreted as a vampire @-@ slaying ritual by the archaeologists who discovered it in 2006 . 

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 The many areas and peoples listed here represent much of Western Asia and the Caucasus . The " European foreigners " are those fighting with the Tartars in the Mongol @-@ led siege of Kaffa . These Europeans would return to Europe the following year , carrying the plague with them . Travellers returning from the Crimea also carried the plague to Byzantium and Arabia , according to Greek and Arab scholars of the time . 

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 The scarcity of labour and abundance of land induced a high marginal product of labour . European immigrants ( chiefly Italians , Spaniards , French and Germans ) , tempted by the high wages , arrived in droves . The government subsidized European immigration for a short time in the late 1880s , but immigrants arrived in massive numbers even with no subsidy . 

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 After the decentralization of political power in late antiquity , Latin developed locally into branches that became the Romance languages , such as Spanish , Portuguese , French , Italian and Romanian , and a large number of minor languages and dialects . Today , more than 900 million people are native speakers worldwide . 
