University of agronomic sciences and veterinary medicine of
1. University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania
Letea, the picturesque village on the same name in the Danube Delta, is inhabited by the descendants of the
Zaporoji cossacks who fled here in the early 18th century. The fugitives, called haholi, Ukrainians from Austro-
Hungary, came to the island with their habits with everything.
The Zaporojen Cossacks fled to the virgin lands of the Danube Delta after the Battle of Poltava in 1709
when Tsar Peter the Great won the fight against Carol XII of Sweden and began reprisals against those who had
the Scandinavian king and who demanded the release of Ukraine.
Historians say that the Hahols, who were dragging from the Ukrainian Cossacks from the Dnieper and who
had escaped from Russia's invasion expansionism, originally settled in the Danube Delta, where they tried and in
some places succeeded, chased the Lipovans, coming , in turn, from Russian space. They were engaged in fishing
and were very good boat builders. Numerically, these populations were low. For example, the Lipovans were, in
the middle of the 19th century, 770 families, Hahols - about 1,000 families.
Trică Andrei-Bogdan, IMAPA, Group 8112
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Keywords: Letea, village, cossacks, hahols
