The Romani people left India about a thousand years ago, besieged by other cultures. They did so with their own language, Romani. They arrived on the Iberian Peninsula in 1425 thanks to a safe-conduct granted by the monarch Alfonso V of Aragon. At that time, it was mistakenly thought that they came from Egypt, hence the demonym was created from the Latin aegyptanus and which in English would give gypsy. In the time of the Catholic Monarchs (1474-1504), the group was forbidden from practicing a trade, so they had to earn a living as best they could.