They are a subgroup of the itinerant Dom people.

A community anciently related to the Romani are the Dom people.

Also found in the Middle East are various groups of the Dom people, often identified as "gypsies."

For information on the Dom of Iran, see the article under Dom people.

Sometimes, Buno people can be considered as Oraon, Santal or Dom people.

The Dom people, an ethnic group scattered through many Middle East countries, are widely assumed to be related the Domba of India.

The Iranian singer Googoosh made a song "Koeli", where she mentions the Dom people, the gypsies of Iran.

A community related to the Romanies and living in Israel and the Palestinian territories and in neighboring countries are known as Dom people.

Domari is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by the Dom people across the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus, Central Asia and India.

Contemporary populations suggested as sharing a close relationship to the Romani are the Dom people of Western Asia and North Africa, and the Banjara of India.

The Ghawazi (also ghawazee) dancers of Egypt were a group of female traveling dancers of the Nawari people, a subgroup of the Dom people, sometimes referred to as "Gypsies".

In Western India, in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat they are referred to as Domba or Domari which is very similar to the name used in the Middle East (see Dom people).

Their name was later applied to any itinerant entertainer of Indian origin, and came to be the common name of the Dom people in the Middle East, as English gypsy or tinker with contemptuous connotations.

Bin Bella Al-Hunteer, also known as Bilal, the Arab Gipsy Prince, comes from the Dom people, a Gipsy Middle Eastern ethnic group that Gadjos call the "Nawar" in Arabic.

The language is known to be spoken among Dom people in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon.

Their subsequent westward migration, possibly in waves, is believed to have occurred between 500 A.D. and 1000 A.D. Contemporary populations sometimes suggested as sharing a close relationship to the Romani are the Dom people of Central Asia and the Banjara of India.

Even though the Garachi of Azerbaijan call themselves Dom (the name Garachi was given to them by the local population and derives from the Azeri word qara - "black" and the suffix -çı denoting the stem-word's function/occupation), they do not seem to share same origins with the Dom people.