Great Gypsy Round-up
| Great Gypsy Round-up | |
|---|---|
The Prison Window by John Phillip depicting a Romani family in Spain during the Great Gypsy Round-up. | |
| Location | Spain |
| Date | 1749–1763 |
| Target | Romani people in Spain (Gitanos) |
Attack type | Genocide, ethnic cleansing, concentration camps, forced displacement |
| Deaths | Over 500 |
| Victims | 120,000 people forcibly imprisoned, enslaved, families separated |
| Perpetrators | Spanish Monarchy (Ferdinand VI of Spain and Marquis of Ensenada) |
| Motive | Antiziganism, Racism |
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The Great Gypsy Round-up (Spanish: Gran Redada de Gitanos), also known as the general imprisonment of the Gypsies (prisión general de gitanos), was a raid authorized and organized by the Spanish Monarchy that led to the arrest of most Roma in the region and the genocide of 120,000 Romani people. Although a majority were released after a few months, many others spent several years imprisoned and subject to forced labor. The raid was approved by the King Ferdinand VI of Spain, and organized by the Marquis of Ensenada, and set in motion simultaneously across Spain on 30 July 1749.
Since a royal edict by Charles II in 1695, Spanish Romani had been restricted to certain towns. An official edict in 1717 restricted them to only 75 towns and districts, so that they would not be concentrated in any one region.