Jurilovca (russian: link=no, Журиловка; ''Unirea'' from 1983 to 1996) is a
commune
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in
Tulcea County
Tulcea County () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in the historical region Dobruja, with the capital city at Tulcea. It includes in its northeast corner the large and thinly-populated estuary of the Danube.
Demographics
In 2011, Tulcea Cou ...
,
Northern Dobruja
Northern Dobruja ( ro, Dobrogea de Nord or simply ; bg, Северна Добруджа, ''Severna Dobrudzha'') is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, bordered in the south ...
,
Romania
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. It is composed of three villages: Jurilovca, Vișina and Sălcioara (''Caramanchioi'' until 1934; ''
Vintilă Brătianu
Vintilă Ion Constantin Brătianu (16 September 1867 – 22 December 1930) was a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between 24 November 1927 and 9 November 1928. He and his brothers Ion I. C. Brătianu and Dinu Brătianu ...
'' from 1934 to 1947; ''6 Martie'' from 1947 to 1996).
It was founded by
Lipovans
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at the beginning of the 19th century; the first documentary attestation is from 1826. Although at its beginnings it was a small village, the settlement grew and become, at the end of the 19th century, an important fishing centre in
Danube Delta
The Danube Delta ( ro, Delta Dunării, ; uk, Дельта Дунаю, Deľta Dunaju, ) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Ro ...
area. Nowadays it has the biggest community of fishermen in Romania, and it has the most modern fish processing factory in the country and Eastern Europe.
Jurilovca is also a tourist center. At about 15 km across the
Golovița Lake is
Gura Portiței
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, a beach resort at
Black Sea
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. You can reach there by little vessel and by boat. Other tourist attractions are Argamum Citadel and
Doloșman Cape. The entire area is a part of
Danube Delta
The Danube Delta ( ro, Delta Dunării, ; uk, Дельта Дунаю, Deľta Dunaju, ) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Ro ...
Biosphere Reservation.
At the 2011 census, 60.7% of the inhabitants were Romanians and 38.8% Russian Lipovans.
The
Lipovans
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are
Russians
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by ethnicity and
Old Believers
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Orthodox
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by confession. This confession is the result of
Nikonite Reform. In 1652,
Nikon
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, the Patriarch of
Russian Orthodox Church
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, initiated a religious reform which had in view adaptation of Russian Church at the rest of the Orthodox Churches, in fact a formal reform. The result was the division of Russian society in two:
Nikonites
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Nikon ( ru , Ни́кон, Old Russian: ''Нїконъ''), born N ...
, those who accepted the Reform, and
Starovers
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(Old Believers), those who did not accept the Reform. The last ones, being chased, emigrated outside
Russia
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, a part of them arriving on Romanian territory, north of
Moldavia
Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centr ...
and Dobruja.
See also
*
Argamum (castra)
Argamum was a fort in the Roman province of Moesia.
See also
*List of castra
Castra ( Latin, singular castrum) were military forts of various sizes used by the Roman army throughout the Empire in various places of Europe, Asia and Africa.
Th ...
References
Communes in Tulcea County
Localities in Northern Dobruja
Place names of Slavic origin in Romania
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