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I cannot comment as I don't know - I know very little of the history of the other regions in Romania since we have been separate countries until recently and it's already a lot to learn about my own regions. but I would not be surprised. in my mom's village there were 40 Gypsies at the census 130 years ago out of several hundred inhabitants. these were past workers on the estates of the local low-rank nobility (boyars) that stayed in the village after they were released. this happened everywhere - Gypsies stayed in the villages where they were previously part of the boyar or monastery estate only. the extent to which they mixed with the other villagers over time probably varies from village to village. in my mom's village there's no Gypsy anymore, officially, and no one is known as to be Gypsy in the village, so they must have mixed into the local genetic pool in the meantime and such mixes probably produced some Mediterranean-looking types at most, as they were a minority and no one looks particularly Gypsy now
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