The sedentary Arlije are the main group of the Romani people in North Macedonia, and the majority live in Šuto Orizari Municipality.
[5] The word Arlije (singular Arli) is derived from the Turkish word yerli (meaning "native" or "settled"),[6] as does the name Erlides (Greek: Ερλίδες, of a similar group living in Greece,[1][7][8] and the Sofia-Erli in Bulgaria.
In East Thrace at Turkey, they are called Yerli Romanlar and only speak Rumelian Turkish.
[8][11] While the Early Romani people traces back to the Indian subcontinent,[12] gene flow from the Ottoman Turks also spilled over and established a higher frequency of the Y-haplogroups J and E3b in Balkan Roma Groups.
[13] The Greek doctor A. G. Paspati made also the statement in his Book, that Turks married often Roma woman.