Lipovans

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Lipovans
липоване (
Eastern Orthodox Christianity)
Related ethnic groups
Russians

The Lipovans or Lippovans

Principality of Wallachia (Muntenia), and in the regions of Dobruja and Budjak during the 17th and 18th centuries. According to the 2011 Romanian census, there are a total of 23,487 Lipovans in Romania, mostly living in Northern Dobruja, in the Tulcea County but also in the Constanța County, and in the cities of Iași, Brăila and Bucharest. In Bulgaria, they inhabit two villages: Kazashko and Tataritsa.[1]

Name

The origin of the name of the Lipovans is not known exactly, but it may come from the

dissenters who emigrated to what is now Romania, his adepts being named filippovtsy which became lipovtsi and finally lipovane.[2] Another hypothesis derives it from "Filippovka", a holiday name dedicated to Saint Philip of Moscow.[citation needed
]

History

Lipovans in Vylkove, Ukraine

The Lipovans emigrated from Russia in the 18th century, as

Old Russian, to cross themselves with two fingers instead of three, and to keep their beards. The Russian government and the Orthodox Church persecuted them, and as a result various sects arose whose goal was to commit suicide, e.g., by burning themselves (self-burners: сожигатели, sozhigateli),[3]
with many others being forced to emigrate.

Lipovans were considered to be schismatic by the Russian Orthodox Church, although relations have improved recently. (See main article on Old Believers.)[citation needed]

Population

The main centre of the Lipovan community in Ukraine is the town of

thatching
is standard for the roofing.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Russian: липоване, romanized: lipovane; Romanian: lipoveni; Ukrainian: липовани, romanized: lypovany; Bulgarian: липованци, romanized: lipovantsi.

References

  1. ^ a b c Constantin, Marin (2014). "The ethno-cultural belongingness of Aromanians, Vlachs, Catholics, and Lipovans/Old Believers in Romania and Bulgaria (1990–2012)" (PDF). Revista Română de Sociologie. 25 (3–4). Bucharest: 255–285.
  2. ^ a b Vascenco, Victor. "Melchisedec şi lipovenii" [Melchizedek and the Lipovans]. Romanoslavica (PDF) (in Romanian). Vol. XLII. University of Bucharest. p. 133. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2009.
  3. ISBN 978-0-7434-8223-3
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  4. ^ "Water world". The Independent. London. 18 June 2005. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  5. ^ "The Danube". Archived from the original on 4 May 2006.
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