the sinti arrived in germany and austria in the middle ages, eventually splitting into two groups: "eftavagarja" ("the seven caravans") and "estraxarja" ("from austria"). these two groups then expanded, the eftavagarja into france, where they called locally as (manouches), spain and portugal where they called gitanos, calo or ciganos, and the estraxarja into italy and slovenia, eventually taking various regional names.