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Data on the historical demography of the Roma [ref. 1,75,98]
Source	Period	Region	Population size

Ottoman Empire Tax	15^th century	Balkan Provinces	17,000
Registries	16^th century	Balkan Provinces	65,000
	16^th century	Bulgaria only	5,700
Ottoman Empire	17^th century	Balkan Provinces	11-15,000 males of
Army List			military age
Austro-Hungarian Empire	1772	Transylvania	39,000
Census Data	1837	Transylvania	53,000
	1893	Transylvania	105,000
Bulgaria	1881-1885	Bulgaria	62,324
Census Data

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