＜正＞The striving of countries in Central Europe~1 to enter the European Union~2 may offer an unprecedented chance to the continent’s Gypsies（or Roman）to be recognized as a nation,albeit one without a defined territory.And if they were to achieve that they might even seek some kind of formal place——at least a total population outnumbers that of many of the Union’s present and future countries.Some experts put the figure at 4m-plus;some proponents of Gypsy rights go as high as 15m.Unlike Jews,Gypsies have had no known ancestral landto hark back to.~3Though their language is related to Hindi,their territorial origins are misty.Romanian peasants held them to be born on the moon.
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