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===Paulicians===
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One of the earliest Christian dualist sects, [[Marcionism]], originated in Armenia (in the eastern part of present Turkey).<ref>Ehrman, Bart D. ''Lost Christianities: The battles for scripture and the faiths we never knew''. Oxford University Press, 2005.</ref> The church Marcion himself established appeared to die out around the 5th century, although similarities between Marcionism and [[Paulicianism]], a sect in the same geographical area, indicate that Marcionist elements may have survived.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Koester |first=Helmut |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZQgAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 |title=History and Literature of Early Christianity |date=2012 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-081265-7 |language=en}}</ref> Paulicianism began in the mid-7th century, when [[Constantine-Silvanus|Constantine of Mananalis]], basing his message solely on his personal interpretation of the New Testament, began to teach that there were two gods: a good god who had made men's souls, and an evil god who had created the entire physical universe including the human body. His followers, who became known as [[Paulicians]], were not marked by extreme deviance in lifestyle compared to contemporaries, despite their belief that the world was evil, and were renowned as good fighting men.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/dualist.htm |title=Hamilton, Janet and Bernard, ''Christian dualist heresies in the Byzantine world, c.650–c.1450'' |access-date=2018-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527121532/http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/dualist.htm |archive-date=2011-05-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

However, it is not certain that the Paulicians were Dualistic, as in the Key of Truth it is said that: "The Paulicians are not dualists in any other sense than the New Testament is itself dualistic. Satan is simply the adversary of man and God".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Conybeare|first=Frederick|title=The Key of Truth. A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia}}</ref>

In 970, the Byzantine emperor [[John I Tzimiskes]] transplanted 200,000 Armenian Paulicians to Europe and settled them in the neighbourhood of Philippopolis (today's [[Plovdiv]], Bulgaria). Under Byzantine and then later Ottoman rule, the Armenian Paulicians lived in relative safety in their ancient stronghold near [[Plovdiv|Philippopolis]], and further northward. Linguistically, they were assimilated into the [[Bulgarians]], by whom they were called ''pavlikiani'' (the [[Byzantine Greek]] word for Paulician). In 1650, the [[Roman Catholic Church]] gathered them into its fold. Fourteen villages near [[Nikopol, Bulgaria|Nicopolis]], in [[Moesia]], embraced Catholicism, as well as the villages around Philippopolis. A colony of Paulicians in the Wallachian village of {{Interlanguage link|Cioplea|ro}} near [[Bucharest]] also followed the example of their brethren across the [[Danube]].<ref name=EB1911/>