Jurilovca

Jurilovca is a commune in Tulcea County, Dobrudja, Romania. It consists of 3 villages: Jurilovca, Visina and Salcioara. It turned into founded through Lipovans at the start of the 19th century; the first documentary attestation is from 1826. Although at its beginnings it was a small village, the settlement grew and come to be, at the stop of the 19th century, an vital fishing middle in Danube Delta location. Nowadays it has the most important community of fishermen in Romania, and it has the maximum contemporary fish processing factory in the usa and Eastern Europe. Jurilovca is also a tourist center.

At about 15 km across the Golovița Lake is Gura Portiței, a beach lodge at Black Sea. You can reach there through little vessel and through boat. Other traveler attractions are Argamum Citadel and Doloșman Cape. Entire area is part of Danube Delta Biosphere Reservation. The Lipovans are Russians by way of ethnicity and Old Believers Orthodox by confession. This confession is the end result of Nikonian Reform. In 1652, Nikon, the Patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church, initiated a non secular reform which had in view adaptation of Russian Church on the rest of the Orthodox Churches, in reality a formal reform.