The first news about Roma in Serbia comes from the reign of King Dušan in 1331. - 1355. under whose rule were Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and Albania. Data from the oldest Turkish census from 1491. The years show that Roma lived in Prizren, Niš, Kruševac, Smedere Roma arrived in large numbers in South Slavic countries during the rule of the Turks. They mainly belonged to Christianity, but under the rule of the Turks they embraced Islam en masse. Only with the Sretensky Constitution of 1835. years equals the position of the Roma with other citizens of Serbia. According to the 1834 census. there are 18,000 Roma in Serbia, and in later lists their number was reduced because they did not declare themselves or were listed as Serbs. This mostly happened during the baptism of the Roma. For example, in the period from 1892. since 1895. 2223 Roma residents were baptized in Timochka Diocese. In the Kingdom of Serbia 1895. in the year there were 42,212 Roma. Out of the total number of Roma, slightly more than 25,000 declared that they used Serbian as their mother tongue, around 11,000 Romanian and just under 600 Turkish. This is clearly the result of the process of assimilation and ethnic
