According to their oral tradition, their ancestors came as traders from Hindustan, perhaps from the Sindh, at the time of the Indo-Roman trade relations, to Roman Egypt, and settled in the city of Qift. From Egypt, they went with the Umayyad Arab warriors as sutlers to Anatolia at 740 AD. After the Battle of Akroinon, they settled there. There are records of the presence of Romani people from AD 800 in Thrace, known in Greek as Athinganoi and in Turkish as Çingene. Sulukule in Istanbul is the oldest Roma settlement in Europe, recorded in 1054. The Ottoman Turkish Historian Evliya Çelebi explain in his Seyahatnâme, that Mehmed the Conqueror in 1453, take Muslim Roma Musicans from Balat, Didim and settled in Istanbul. With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, Muslim Roma settled in Rumelia (southeastern Europe) under Ottoman rule. Uniquely to Ottoman history, the Muslim Roma people were given their own sanjak, or province, the Sanjak of the Çingene at Rumelia, by the order of Suleiman the Magnificent at 1520.