[1] They were one of the first, if not the first, group of Roma to migrate to Poland, mostly from the territories of the Kingdom of Hungary, through the Carpathian Mountains, sometime during the 15th century.
[3] Traditional occupations of Bergitka Roma have been iron working and music.
Unlike many other Romani dialects of Eastern and Central Europe, it lacks any influence from German.
[5] Bergitka Roma are non-nomadic and have lived a settled existence since at least the 18th century.
[5] Until World War II they lived mostly in the rural countryside of the Carpathian highlands, mainly the Goral Lands, but after the war began moving to larger cities of Malopolska, such as Kraków, Tarnów, and Rzeszów.