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===Tichilești===
{{Main|Tichilești, Tulcea}}
Tichilești was founded as a monastery of Tichilești, with time becoming a [[leper colony]]. A legend says the monastery was founded by one of the [[Cantacuzino]] princesses who was affected by leprosy. Another theory of the history the settlement is that a group of Russian refugees (see [[Lipovans]]) settled there and founded the monastery, but soon became outlaws who were eventually caught. In 1918, a part of the lepers moved to Bessarabian town of [[Izmail]]. Following a 1926 newspaper article, a hospital was built in 1928 at the monastery. In 1998, there were 39 people in the settlement, and according to the 2002 census, there were 22 people, most of them having an age of more than 60 years.<ref>[http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?data=2006-03-21&id=196153 "Ultimul lazaret"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602212723/http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?data=2006-03-21&id=196153 |date=2021-06-02 }}, in ''[[Ziua]]'' March 21, 2006</ref> By 2019, there were only 9 people.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-08-09|title= Tichilești: Viața ultimilor bolnavi de lepră din România |url= https://zin.ro/09/08/2019/administratie/tichilesti-viata-ultimilor-bolnavi-de-lepra-din-romania/|access-date=2021-05-23|newspaper=Ziarul de Investigații|language=ro}}</ref>