The Dom (دوم) or Ghagar (غجر) people migrated to the territory of the present day Egypt from South Asia, particularly from Indian Subcontinent, and heavily intermixed with Egyptians. Scholars suggest that their Egyptian admixture later made them known around the world by the vernacular term Gypsies, deriving from the word "Egyptian."^[2][3] Though some of the Dom people self-segregated themselves for centuries from the dominant culture of Egypt,^[4] historically; Domari in Egypt have intermixed with Egyptians and participated at local musical entertainment at weddings, circumcisions and other celebrations, singing Egyptian traditional songs and dance in return for money. The Dom people in Egypt or Roma Egyptians include subgroups like Nawar, and Ghagar (ghaggar).^[5][6] The Dom in Egypt are Sunni Muslims and speak Egyptian Arabic also their own Domari language together.^[7]

Ottoman sources

Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname of 1668, he explained that the Gypsies from Komotini (Gümülcine) swear by their heads, their ancestors came from Egypt.^[8] Also the sedentary Gypsies groups from Serres region in Greece, believe their ancestors were once taken from Egypt Eyalet by the Ottomans after 1517 to Rumelia, to work on the tobacco plantations of Turkish feudals there.^[9] Muslim Roma settled in Baranya and the City Pécs at the Ottoman Hungary. After the Siege of Pécs when Habsburg take it back, Muslim Roma and some other Muslims convert to the Catholic faith in the years 1686 -1713.^[10] The Ghagar a subgroup of the Doms in Egypt, tell that some of them went to Hungary.^[11]