It is said that Gipsies, have lived in Egypt from the year 200 b.c. and that they were Pharos' slaves. The Gipsies were and some still are very good traditional craftmen and during the days of the Pharos the Gipsies made shields, swords and knives for soldiers. As slaves the Gipsies also had to row the big war ships. The Gipsies were nomads in those days. They travelled by means of wagons drawn by oxen from place to place across large areas in many parts of the world. They were housed in tents like most of the people in those days. It is also said that the Gipsies worked like today's circus people, they could shallow swords and fire. They were also fortune-tellers for pharos women. Although there were fears, these was also a curiousity about the powers of fortune-telling. The Gipsies who were less talented were forced to steal in order to take care of their families. The punishment for stealing was severe, one of their hands was cut off.

Today there are more then 35000 Gipsies living in Sweden today. Their forefathers that is the parents of their grandparents migrated across Asia into Europe under great hardship, and arrived in Sweden during 15th century. It is said that in the 8th century a group of gipsies lived in the town of Male in India. In the year 710 Gipsies were known to have been seen in the town Pani before the migration continued though Asia. Here is a list of places that the Gipsies visited during the migration from the year 710.

The Year 1560 King Gustav Wasa was very cruel towards Gipsies who lived in Sweden. Another King who treated the Gipsies cruelly was King Johan III. He forced the Gipsies to work as slaves in the mines and many of them were killed. Their children who also were forced to work in the mines with their parents, many of them died in mine-explosions. Queen Kristina ordered that all the Gipsy men in Sweden were to be sentenced to death by hanging. The women and children were to be deported from Sweden, and soon after they were then to be killed by Queen Kristina's soldiers. Starting the year 1637 a new law was past in Sweden that all Gipsies were to be executed without trial. This executions continued until the 19th century.The year 1914 the Gipsies were not allowed to enter Sweden. This law was abolished 1954.

Between the years 1939-1945 nearly 1 million Gipsies were executed in the concentration camps by the nazis all around Europe during the second World war.

Rumania ha the largest Gipsy population. There are about 10 million Gipsies today. They are treated very badly by the native population. For example they are not allowed to enter shops, they live in dirty conditions in dilapidated houses with no water and electricity. Of course there are exceptions where some have been able to get work and college education. In a town in Czech Republic the people asked the government to build a two metre high concrete wall around the part of the town where the Gipsies lived in order to separate them from the other people in the town. This wall was built. The Gipsies in the Czech Republic have great difficulties, with the nazis (Skin heads), for example when they skin heads burnt down a whole flat where Gipsy families lived, 3 children died. The skin heads were released because there was a " lack " of evidence. The wall was pull down the year 2000