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Well, as a matter of fact we known from Roma culture in general that endogamy is the norm, hence the majority of those whom mixed with outsiders, would have been excluded from the Rom community. At what time they adopted this practice as a cultural norm i do not know, but looking at their DNA make-up one can see that they have some DNA from the middle east, which could be from Anatolia as much as from say Iran/Iraq ect, especially given their known prolonged stay in the Byzantine empire..So it would likely have been more recently, post 1200's is my guess.
In Scandinavia it has been frowned upon in recent times, due to modern racial adaptations (1800's onwards, especially in the inter-war era of 1900's), before that it was not so much a problem, and we know that a good number of Roma and others (Russians, Germans, Tatars ect) come to Scandinavia as mercenaries, many whom assimilated into the general population, while some Roma remained nomadic, and are now referred to as Romani.
My own family dont have an issue with our Romani ancestry, but we were not expecting it to be via my grandmother, rather there are oral stories of my grandfather having such ancestry, but eitherway, its part of our history now..our Romani relative was likely excommunicated from the Romani culture when they mixed, hence the lack of a oral tradition, or they were adopted without knowing their Romani ancestry...Eitherway, my grandmother did not know..
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