[4] The ancestors of the Sevlengere were basketweavers in Thessaloniki, and lived there as nomads during the Ottoman Empire until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey.
Many of the families that left Saloniki but remained in Greece settled in the Volos area and became Greek Orthodox.
Some of the old settlements where they once lived include Tralangere (Trala, a village near Saloniki) and Kardičakere (also known as Karditsa, in northern Greece).
[3] In 1920, migrants wishing to avoid the Greco-Turkish War presented themselves as either Greeks or Turks and alternated between using two flags to identify themselves.
[16] The Sevlengere who remained in Greece at Volos took up the additional profession of carpet trade, unlike their Roma relatives in Izmir.
[26] Some words and phrases from the old Sepeči dialect survived, but the main language of the Sevlengere in Turkey is now Turkish.