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Abstract: Spatial Localization of Old Rite Orthodox Communities from Romania. The old rite Orthodox communities (Lipovenians) came into existence through the immigration of those people who disputed the religious reforms in Russia (Starovers) during the 17th century. In order to delimit the regions from which these people emigrated, the specialists in Slavonic language, after having studied the spoken language of the Lipovenians from Romania, brought about a lot of common peculiarities specific to the southern velicorussian dialect. Therefore, the most documentary sources indicate the regions of Don and Kuban as Russian-Lipovenians places of emigration. It is unanimously recognised that the spreading of people all over the geographical areas that are now inhabited by Lipovenians took place during the 18th century and the first of the next century the areas inhabited during that century have remained mostly the same with those peopled nowadays by the Lipovenians. In Romania, the most important area with the highest concentration of old rite Orthodox communities is situated in the south-eastern part of Romania (Dobrogea). A second area, clearly outlined, is located in Romania�s north-eastern part, more than 40 such communities in these two areas having been identified, both in the rural environment, as in the urban one. As a demographical size of the sheltered population, the south-eastern area holds by far the first place, with approximately � of the whole Russian-Lipovenian population of the country. Within this area, the Tulcea County stands out through the population of this ethnical group, which contains more than a half of all people belonging to this ethnical group from Romania. Very often the spatial connection of the Lipovenian�s presence in Romania is linked to the Danube Delta. This association is totally wrong due to the fact that in this territory they hold only a little more than a tenth of the whole population, and compared to their whole minority from Romania, those from the Danube Delta repre |
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