Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roma are an ethnic group in Bosnia and Herzegovina for more than 600 years. According to the 1991 census, there were 8,864 Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina or 0.2% of the population. Unofficial estimations counts 80,000 to 400,000 Roma or approximately 2 to 10 % of the total population. Rousseau, the French consul in Bosnia estimated in 1866 a number of 9,965 or 1.1% of the population. Johann Roskiewicz estimated in 1867 the number of the Gypsies in Bosnia at 9,000 (1.2%) and in Herzegovina at 2,500 (1.1 %), resulting a sum of 11,500 Roma. The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica mentions 18,000 Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1.6%).