Pahlin is a Roma settlement in Rijeka, and dates back to the 16th century. The original name was first Hosts and then Pehlin. In 1889, Dr. Matko Laginja, speaking about the name among other things, wrote:
"Pahlin got the name from a settled family that lived there in the last century, but now there is no trace of that family.
These Peharlanci were foreigners (some Koteveri or some other Germans look like) in the service of state chambers that were then in the form of customs.
The ethnographer Ivo Jardash again wrote: "Pahlin was named after the Pahlichcheks, who during that period grew."
In the Austrianhungar rule, people were engaged in farming and viticulture, and they themselves carried these products to Rijeka and sold them.
Otherwise, in Rijeka there are three other Roma non-Roma Roma settlements where the Roma are well integrated.
Link: http://romi.hr/zanimljivosti/hrvatska/pehlin
