The Arlians are a Roma group that has converted to Islam and whose members live in the territory of Turkey and all other countries that were under the Ottoman Empire in the past. It is a sedentary Muslim group whose group speaks the Roma (Aryan) dialect which does not differ much from other Roma dialects. Most of the Roma Arli in Turkey live in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and other cities.
Arlias are also found in Macedonia (Skopje) where they have their own Roma community, mosques, hodges, then in Kosovo where most emigrated to Serbia, Maribor, Austria and Germany, in southeastern Serbia (a significant number in Leskovac who converted to the Adventist Church ) in Bulgaria (where most have converted to Christianity or moved to Turkey and there are also some in northern Greece.
