On 5 December 1362 Egyptian Vlaho and Vitan requested the Duke office that the goldsmith Raden Bratoslavic returns eight silver belts which they left as deposit with him (DAD, Moumenta Ragusina, III Ref XXI, 1 1895, 245J. Tadic, Letters and guidance of Dubrovnik Republic, 1 1935, 101). Document is cited in all the works published after the Second World War and we strongly believe that the Dubrovnik Gypsies are ancestors of today’s Lovari Roma as this tradition of names, surnames and customs can today be found among Lovari Roma in Croatia.
Gypsies in Dubrovnik Republic lead same and care less life, without banishment and accusation. According to individual economic and professional status the Gypsies to great extent belonged to middle class of Dubrovnik society. Analyses of their personal names and patronymic surnames, scope of their merchant trade as well as listing down their associates, partners. Generally stilling, not keeping given word, cheating, bad manners, fights, disputes and so on are deemed to be moral characteristics of Gypsies.
All this can be found among some Gypsies in Dubrovnik, but these are not typical only for them but for the epoch of that time when the greed, fights and revenge were normal. Otherwise if the contrast of the mentality was stronger or that the Gypsies with such for non-Roma negative characteristics caused rejection in Dubrovnik Republic and become non wanted. Dubrovnik government would not had allowed them to stay in Dubrovnik Republic but would had deny them right to stay or even worse would not had allowed them to pass or cross over their territory. During 15 th century Dubrovnik government did not issue any act that concerned Gypsies in particularly.
