Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians

"Ashkali" redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Ashkali, Iran.
Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians
Komuniteti Ashkali dhe Komuniteti i Egjiptianëve të Ballkanit
Regions with significant populations
 Kosovo26,960[1][a]
 North Macedonia3,713[2][b]
 Albania12,375[3][b]
 Serbia2,831[4][c]
 Montenegro2,054[5][b]
 Croatia172[6]
Languages
Albanian
Religion
Cultural Muslims[7]

The Ashkali (Serbian: Ашкалије, romanized: Aškalije), otherwise known as Hashkali (Serbian: Хашкалије, romanized: Haškalije) and/or Balkan Egyptians (Serbian: Балкански Египћани, romanized: Balkanski Egipćani; Albanian: Komuniteti i Egjiptianëve të Ballkanit; Macedonian: Ѓупци), are Albanian-speaking Muslim ethnic cultural minorities (recognized communities),[7][8] which mainly inhabit Kosovo and southern Serbia,[7] as well as Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.[9] Prior to the Kosovo War of 1999, the Balkan Egyptians or Ashkali people registered themselves as Albanians.[10] While some Ashkali speak Romani, Egyptians usually do not.[11] The two groups are not clearly delineated. Though they differ linguistically and culturally from the Roma, they have often been grouped together under the acronym RAE.[12]

  1. ^ "Population - by gender ethnicity at settlement level" (PDF). p. 11. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  2. ^ Statistički godišnik na Republika Makedonija (in Macedonian). 2007. p. 55. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  3. ^ "1.1.13 Popullsia banuese sipas përkatësisë etnike dhe kulturore sipas Përkatësia etnike dhe kulturore, Variabla dhe Viti" (xls). INSTAT - Instituti i Statistikave (in Albanian).
  4. ^ "ПОПИС 2022 - еxcел табеле | О ПОПИСУ СТАНОВНИШТВА". Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  5. ^ "STATISTIČKI GODIŠNJAK 2011" (PDF). Statistics of Montenegro. p. 46. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Population by ethnicity – detailed classification, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  7. ^ a b c Ismaili, Besa (2013). "Kosovo". In Nielsen, Jørgen S.; Akgönül, Samim; Alibašić, Ahmet; Racius, Egdunas (eds.). Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Vol. 5. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 369–381. doi:10.1163/9789004255869_025. ISBN 978-90-04-25586-9. ISSN 1877-1432.
  8. ^ "Minority political representation: Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians". 19 April 2017.
  9. ^ "StackPath". 12 March 2018.
  10. ^ Valeriu Nicolae; Hannah Slavik (2007). Roma Diplomacy. IDEA. ISBN 978-1-932716-33-7.
  11. ^ "Post-war Kosovo and its policies towards the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities" (PDF). Harvard: School of Public Health. July 2014.
  12. ^ Lichnofky, C. (2013). "Ashkali and Egyptians in Kosovo: New ethnic identifications as a result of exclusion during nationalist violence from 1990 till 2010". Romani Studies. 23 (1): 29–60. doi:10.3828/rs.2013.2. S2CID 143787353.


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