Tatar Gypsy

Crimean gypsies, Tatar gypsies, Ayuji (bear cub, from the Crimean Tatar word Ayuv - bear), (Kyrymitika Roma, krymurâ, aûǧi, Crimean Tatar, Tatar Çingene, Horahane, Turkmen, Gurbet, Kuban) are a sub-ethnic group belonging to the "big" Muslim Roma group.

Gypsies arrived on the territory of Crimea with the Golden Horde. In the Crimean Khanate, the Chingens, like representatives of other peoples, never felt harassment: the authorities did not persecute them, they were never treated with contempt. In the Crimea, they could, at their will, lead both a sedentary and semi-sedentary lifestyle, engage in productive labor and music. In the 18th century, Islam became the traditional religion of the Crimean gypsies. Currently, they live in many countries of the former USSR, including Russia. They speak the Tatarian language.

Roma researcher Nikolai Stieber wrote in his essay on Roma in Crimea: "All Crimean gypsies profess the Muslim faith, many of them even fulfill the commandments of the Koran no less strictly than other Muslims. Crimean gypsies live permanently among the Tatar population, usually have Tatar names, speak fluently in the Crimean Tatar language. With regard to clothing, the gypsies try to imitate the Tatars: men dress in bathrobes, cover their heads with a Tatar hat: gypsies wear a Tatar hat on their heads. Chingene as artisans enjoy great success and influence among the local population, they are treated as honest workers. Some of the Crimean gypsies serve as porters on ships when loading grain bread; carry on a peddling trade. Crimean gypsies play the daul, violin and zurna; they play wherever they are invited; in city coffee houses and hotels, at Tatar weddings and evenings."

The Crimean gypsies lived in the Crimea and in the Kuban steppe, which was part of the Crimean Khanate, the Crimean gypsies were the first gypsies who appeared in the Kuban steppe. Today, the descendants of the first gypsies who settled in the Kuban do not call themselves Crimean gypsies, they prefer to call themselves Kuban gypsies, but at the same time they retain the Crimean dialect of the gypsy language and profess Islam.

From 1854 to 1862, Tatar Gypsies together with the Qrim Tatars were designed in the Ottoman State, Bulgaria. Most of them spread in Northern Bulgaria, especially in Dobruya, near the Danube and in the Vidin region.

Crimean Tatar intervention saved the lives of Crimean Muslim Gypsies from the Nazis, but in 1944, the Crimean Gypsies, as well as the Crimean Tatars, were deported to Central Asia, which was due to the fact that most of the Crimeans in Soviet passports were recorded as Tatars,

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