Romanistan

Romanistan, Romastan or Romanestan is the name of a proposed country, for the Romani people.^[1]

Flag of the Romani people, a national symbol of the Romani

Romanistan is generally understood as a cultural and historical presence centralised in the Balkans of southeastern Europe.^{[2][3][vague]} The creation of an autonomous region for the Romani was suggested by the leaders of a party in North Macedonia known as the Party for the Complete Emancipation of Roma (and also reportedly by a Romani party in Hungary) in the early 1990s, at Šuto Orizari.^[4] The proposal of such a region in North Macedonia was also briefly considered by Josep Tito, leader of Socialist Yugoslavia but the idea never materialized.^[5] Several times during the 1920s and 1930s, ideas of an autonomous Romani state within the USSR were raised. Such efforts were dropped by 1936-7.^[6] In the early 1950s, Romani leaders petitioned the United Nations for the creation of their own state, but their petition was rejected.^[1] Given the South Asian origins of the Romani, Romanistan has even been envisaged as being in South Asia, within the borders of the Indian subcontinent.^[7]

See also

• King of the Gypsies
• Romani in North Macedonia
• Black separatism, various movements that advocate for the establishment of a state for the Black diaspora
• Zionism, an ethnocultural nationalist^[8] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century with a goal of the establishment of a home for the Jewish people