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the country. According to the minutes of the Stockholm city council, a group of about 60 people arrived in the city, reportedly from Little Egypt. The idea that the Roma came from Egypt was common in the stories of Roma groups traveling across Europe, which is also the origin of the English word Gypsies. The initial reception was friendly, but already during the reign of Gustav Vasa in the 1520s, the king aimed to expel the Roma from the kingdom. John III continued

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