What is Lipovans?
[[Image:Evstafiev-lipovane-slava-cherkeza.jpg|thumb|Lipovans (Russian Old Believers) during a ceremony in front of their church in the Romanian village of [[Slava Cercheză]] in 2004 (photo by [[Mikhail Evstafiev]])]] '''Lipovans''' or '''Lippovans''' ({{lang-ro|lipoveni}}, {{lang-uk|липовани}}, {{lang-ru|липоване}}) are the [[Old Believers]], mostly of [[Russia]]n ethnic origin, who settled in the delta of the [[Danube River]] in [[Tulcea (county)|Tulcea county]] in the [[Dobrogea]] region of eastern [[Romania]] and in the southwestern part of [[Odesa Oblast]] (in [[Budjak]]) as well as in [[Chernivtsi Oblast]] in [[Ukraine]] as well as in two villages in North-Eastern [[Bulgaria]]. According to the 2002 Romanian census there are a total of 35,791 Lipovans in Romania, of whom 21,623 still live in Dobrogea. {{Europe-stub}} [[Category:Bulgarian people| ]] [[Category:Romanian people| ]] [[Category:Ukrainian people| ]] [[Category:Religion in Ukraine]]