Devolved parliamentary autonomous territorial unit
• Başkan (Governor)
Evghenia Guțul
• Chairman of the People's Assembly
Dmitri Constantinov
Legislature
People's Assembly
Area
• Total
1,832 km2 (707 sq mi)
• Water (%)
0.36
Population
• 2014[2] census
134,535
• Density
73.43/km2 (190.2/sq mi)
Currency
Moldovan leu (MDL)
Time zone
UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+3 (EEST)
Driving side
right
Calling code
+373
Internet TLD
.md
Gagauzia or Gagauz-Yeri,[a] officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia[b] (ATUG),[3][c] is an autonomous territorial unit of Moldova. Its autonomy is intended for the local Gagauz people, a Turkic-speaking, primarily Orthodox ethnic group.[4][5]
Bessarabia, previously the eastern half of the Principality of Moldavia, was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1812. At the end of World War I, all of Bessarabia – including what was known as 'Gagauzia' – switched control to the Kingdom of Romania. A Soviet invasion and occupation began in June 1940, but the territory was again occupied by Romania from 1941 to 1944, after the latter joined the Axis powers and helped invade the USSR. After World War II, it was incorporated into the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1990, Gagauzia declared itself independent from Moldova as the Gagauz Republic during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but was ultimately reintegrated into Moldova in 1995.
^Neukirch, Claus (2002). "Autonomy and Conflict Transformation: The Case of the Gagauz Territorial Autonomy in the Republic of Moldova" (PDF). In Gal, Kinga (ed.). Minority Governance in Europe. Budapest. pp. 105–123. S2CID 31174219. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-20 – via Semantic scholar.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^"Results of Population and Housing Census in the Republic of Moldova in 2014". National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova. 2 August 2013. Archived from the original on 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
^Information Note by the Co-Rapporteurs on Their Fact-Finding Visit to Chisinau and Comrat (13–16 May 2015)(PDF). Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 13 July 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
^Menz, Astrid. (2007). The Gagauz Between Christianity and Turkishness. 10.5771/9783956506925-123.
^Lipka, Michael (22 May 2022). "The Gagauz: 'Christian Turks' between two worlds". TRT World. The Gagauz, a Turkic-Orthodox Christian people, have lived in the Balkans for hundreds of years, managing to preserve their language and culture.
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