Biography
Professor Dragoljub Acković, PhD graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences and later from the Faculty of Philosophy – Department of Ethnology. He continued his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade and earned his doctorate at the UN Faculty for Peace. He is the author of several hundred articles and about twenty books addressing various Roma-related issues. Since the III Congress of the World Roma Organization, he has been actively involved in its work. He founded the first Museum of Roma Culture in Serbia, where he serves as director, as well as the Roma Art Gallery (2011). He is a board member of the Gypsy Lore Society – Roma Academic Society.
SAMUDARIPEN IN THE TERRITORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA IN LIGHT OF NEW RESEARCH
Abstract: In the latest research on the Samudaripen of the Roma in this region, we used statistical data published for the first time in the monograph "Samudaripen of the Roma in the Independent State of Croatia ". According to the 1931 census, we can conclude that in several cities within the Republic of Srpska, there were individuals whose mother tongue was recorded as "Gypsy" and who were found among both the Orthodox and Muslim populations, as well as Roma who belonged to so-called small religious communities. Based on our research, which was partially published in the book "Samudaripen of the Roma in the Independent State of Croatia", in 1939, the Drina Banovina had approximately 30,000 Roma of the Muslim faith. The number of Orthodox Roma was slightly less than 30,000, but we cannot confirm this number with absolute certainty due to the lack of complete data
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