Old Sarepta (Russian Старая Сарепта) now Krasnoarmeysky Rayon, is a district of

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, in Russia. Sarepta was founded 28 kilometers south of

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by the

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in 1765 when

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sought to attract German settlers (so-called

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) to expand crop production in southern Russia and defend against the invasions of Kalmyk, Kazakh, and

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in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

tribes. Its name comes from Sarepta in

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17:9-10 and here derives from that of the Sarpa river, which flows into the

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nearby. The city was renamed Krasnoarmeisk in 1920, and became a district of

(then Stalingrad) in 1931. A set of eighteenth century buildings in Sarepta that escaped the bombing during the

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is since 1990 an open-air museum called the Old Sarepta Museum of History and Ethnography. When the German Lutheran church made efforts to bring Old Serepta under its influence, some of the Moravian Brethren emigrated to Canada and founded

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References

* Lächele, Rainer ''Die Herrnhuter-Kolonie Sarepta und die Mennonitensiedlung Chortitza''. Wolgograd, 2001.

External links

Article about the museum

Article about Old Sarepta
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