Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Turulung. Micromonografie (Satu Mare, 2009)

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language in the village was the Ruthenian. Until the second half of the 19th century, this population was gradually assimilated, and in 1862 the spoken language in Tururlung was Hungarian.

The owner family, Perenyi, embraced the Protestant religion for a short time in the first half of the 18th century. Risking to lose their fortune, they returned to Catholicism, shortly becoming strong promoters of the movement from Vienna. However, their example was not followed by the inhabitants of Turulung, but they remained convicted to the Calvinist Church. Based on the difference between the two categories of believers, a conflict arose between the population and the landlords, with the climax in 1744, when the nobles banned the Protestants to use the Catholic church. The owner family did not find it in itself to use force in order to impose themselves by breaking the church door and acting violently with the parishioners. The trial that proceeded after this event has been successful for the landlord nobles, who have demonstrated using an inscription on the church tower, visible at that time, that Perenyi Gabor had been the funder of that place. The church was described as being in a state of ruin, reason for which a new building would have been raised. Another argument in favor of this project was the increasing number of Roman Catholics as a result of the colonization of the Schwabs in this locality. 28 German families arrived in Turulung in 1762, at the call of the Perenyi family. The nobles and the new inhabitants signed a contract which established the rights and obligations of each party, last amended in 1835, before the Convent of Leles.

The protestant parishioners who were left without the church,

Casă tradiţională din Turulung-Vii Túrterebes-hegyi parasztház Traditional house of Turulung- Vii Традиційна хата у селі Турулунг-Вій

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