Popéşti-Leordéni

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View towards the cemetery (Valentina Vaseva, 2009)

This locality comprises two villages fused together: Popeşti-Pavlicheni, also known under its old name Conduratu, and Leordeni-Sârbi, which was formerly called Cula and used to be situated elsewhere. The villages have existed since before 1739 (Roman, L. 1984: 136, 137). They are populated with Bulgarian Catholics. Spiridon Palauzov refers to Popeşti as a large and wealthy community of Bulgarian Paulitians (Палаузов, С. Н. 1859: 19–20; Младенов, М., Б. Нягулов, Н. Жечев 1994: 78). Different sources are at variance with each other regarding the settlement of the villages: according to some, the settlers originated from Banat; according to others, they came from Bulgaria via Cioplea (Alessandrescu, C. 1892: 316–317; Петрович, Е., Е. Врабие 1963: 110–111). Residents have kin in Vinga (Banat). Some families stem from Trŭnčovica, Nikopol Region, Belene and Lŭžene (today Malčika), Svištov Region. The 1838 registry of the population records the presence of 12 “Serbian” households in Leordeni and 70 in Popeşti (Conduratu). G. Weigand visited Popeşti and Leordeni-Sârbi in1899 and later included them in his atlas as localities with Bulgarian population (Weigand, G. 1900: 119; Weigand, G. 1909: Map 67). In 1906 S. Romanski found 254 Bulgarian families in Popeşti, descendants of refugees arriving in 1828 from Oreš, Svištov Region (Жечев, Н. 1983: 55; Младенов, М., Б. Нягулов, Н. Жечев 1994: 228). See details about the history of the villages in Dulciu, D. T. 2001; Doboş, D. 2008; about today’s cultural identity of residents in Vaseva, V. 2008, Lyubenova, M. 2008, Гарнизов, В. 1994, Васева, В. 2000; about the dialect in Петрович, Е., Е. Врабие 1963, Петрович, Е., Е. Врабие 1965; about the relations with Dragomirovo, Svištov Region in Ganeva-Raicheva, V. 2008; about funeral rites in Васева, В. 2001; and about traditional culture at the end of the 20th century in Васева, В. 2011, Грънчарова, Е. 2008. A document regarding problems connected to the appointment of a priest in Popeşti in 1925 has been published in Младенов, М., Б. Нягулов, Н. Жечев 1994: 263. Regarding the impressions of a staff member of the Bulgarian embassy who visited the village in 1942, see Младенов, М., Б. Нягулов, Н. Жечев 1994: 337.

Младенов, М. С. 1993: 42-43

Popéşti-Leordéni, Ílfov,

44.381° N, 26.152° E

Leordeni-Sârbi, Леорден-Сърб, Popeşti-Pavlicheni, Попещ-Павликен, Conduratu, Кондурату, Cula, Кула

Cióplea, Popéşti-Leordéni

Ana Iozu (11, f) in fourth grade at the moment of fieldwork
Ana Rafaelu (?, f) in third grade at the moment of fieldwork
Ducea Fincu (?, f)
Ecaterina Manea (35, f)
Ion Marcu (10, m) in third grade at the moment of fieldwork
Ivan Costea (10, m) in third grade at the moment of fieldwork
Ivanca Petre (12, f)
Caterina Mare (35, f)
Maria Bana (?, f)
Maria Caterina (?, f)
Margarita Parapuş (9, f) in third grade at the moment of fieldwork
Natalia Stoica (11, f) in fourth grade at the moment of fieldwork
Pavel Răuţ (64, m)
Pitar Toma (?, m)
Unknown (?, ?)
Rozica Grigore (11, f) in fourth grade at the moment of fieldwork

Gheorghe Bolocan (1925-2000)
Olimpia Guţu (1936-)
Virgil Nestorescu (1929-)