tschinganih

Updated: May 2, 2025

The Turks call them Tschinganih; but the Syrians and Egyptians, as well as themselves, Nury, in the plural El Nauar. It was on the 24th November 1806 when I visited a troop of them, encamped with their black tents in an olive grove, to the west side of Naplos.

Charles Godfrey Leland - The English Gipsies and Their Language