Russian Old Believer minority group located in Romania, Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria
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Lipovans
Липоване(Russian)
Flag of the Lipovans
Lipovans during a ceremony in front of the Lipovan church in the Romanian village of Slava Cercheză in 2004
Regions with significant populations
Romania
23,487[1]
Bulgaria
700–800[1]
Languages
Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Religion
Old Believers (Eastern Orthodox Christianity)
Related ethnic groups
Russians
The Lipovans or Lippovans (Russian: Липовáне; Romanian: Lipoveni; Ukrainian: Липовани; Bulgarian: Липованци) are ethnic Russian Old Believers living in Romania, Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria who settled in the Principality of Moldavia, in the east of the 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]
^ abcConstantin, 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.
The Lipovans or Lippovans (Russian: Липовáне; Romanian: Lipoveni; Ukrainian: Липовани; Bulgarian: Липованци) are ethnic Russian Old Believers living in...
The Community of the Lipovan Russians in Romania (Romanian: Comunitatea Rușilor Lipoveni din România, CRL; Russian: Община русских-липован Румынии, romanized: Obshchina...
Harghita and Covasna. Other minorities include Ukrainians, Germans, Turks, Lipovans, Aromanians, Tatars, and Serbs. In 1930, there were 745,421 Germans living...
Germans in Romania, which functions in the German language. There are 29,890 Lipovans, ethnically Russian emigrants from the Russian Empire who left because...
been established in Pakistan and Uganda. Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church (Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, Lipovans) Old-Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church of Fedoseevtsy [ru]...
(Wallachia, Bucharest), Turks and Tatars (in Constanța), Armenians, Russians (Lipovans, in Tulcea), Afro-Romanians, and others. To this day, minority populations...
later Soviet government. Sometimes ethnic Russian communities, such as the Lipovans who settled in the Danube delta or the Doukhobors in Canada, emigrated...
with Moldavians, Wallachians, Bulgarians, Ukrainians, Greeks, Russians, Lipovans, Cossacks, Gagauzes and other peoples, although colonization was not limited...
Ukrainian Census conducted in 2001. About 70% of the population consists of Lipovans, about 25% are Ukrainians, and the remainder are Romanians, Gagauz (Turkic-speaking...
Vladimir Ivanov [vladiˈmir iˈvanov], 4 August 1969) is a Romanian actor of Lipovan origin. He is represented by Subtitle Talent Agency. Barbie- Princess and...
Danube Delta right next to existing settlements of Nekrasov Cossacks and Lipovans. There was increasing friction between the two groups over land and fishing...
90.6% were ethnic Romanians, 4.4% Turks, 3.6% Tatars, 0.5% Roma, 0.3% Lipovans, and 0.6% belonged to other ethnic groups. According to religion, for respondents...
people (2.01%) Moldovans: 3,224 people (1.32%) Tatars: 436 people (0.18%) Lipovans: 429 people (0.17%) 2001 Ukrainians: 622,900 people (61.6%) Russians: 292...
General Toshevo and Krushari municipalities) 2Only Russians. (Russians and Lipovans counted separately) Northern Dobruja is represented by two dolphins in...
89.13% Lipovans - 5.41% Turks - 0.93% Romani - 1.87% Greeks - 0.65% In the Danube Delta there is an important community of Russians and Lipovans. In the...
the 2011 Romanian census, there are 23,487 Russian-speaking Lipovans practicizing the Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church. They are concentrated in Dobruja...
census, 60.7% of the inhabitants were Romanians and 38.8% Russian Lipovans. The Lipovans are Russians by ethnicity and Old Believers Orthodox by confession...
Banat–Romania Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party Community of the Lipovan Russians in Romania Cultural Union of Ruthenians Democratic Alliance of...
to Romania, where some of them mixed with old believer exiles known as Lipovans. Romanian writer I.L. Caragiale acknowledges that toward the end of the...
Ukrainians, 0.72% Poles, 0.42% Germans (Bukovina Germans), and 0.28% Russians (Lipovans). Siret is the eleventh most populated urban locality in Suceava County...
was 88,772 Jews, 46,946 Russians (among them an important community of Lipovans), around 35,000 Germans, 10,000 Poles, and 10,000 Hungarians. During the...
Global Information
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Bulgaria