The Dom (دوم) people migrated from South Asia to the territory of present-day Egypt, mixing considerably with Egyptians.
Later, given the common assumption that they were originally from Egypt, they became known around the world by the vernacular term Gypsies, deriving from the word Egyptian.
The Dom people in Egypt, or Roma Egyptians, include subgroups, such as Nawar and Ghagar or Ghaggar (غجر).
[7] In Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatnâme of 1668, he explained that the Gypsies from Komotini (Gümülcine) "swear by their heads" their ancestors came from Egypt.
[8] Moreover, the sedentary Gypsy groups from the Serres region in Greece believe their ancestors were once taken from Egypt Eyalet by the Ottomans to Rumelia after 1517 to work on the tobacco plantations of Turkish feudals there.