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| | Gagauz - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | They settled in Bessarabia along with Bulgarians, mainly in Avdarma, Comrat, Congaz, Tomai, Cismichioi and other former Nogai villages located in the central Budjak Region. |
 | | With the exception of a five-day independence in the winter of 1906, when a peasant uprising declared the autonomous Republic of Comrat, the Gagauzian people have been ruled by the Russian Empire, Romania, Germany, and the Soviet Union. |
 | | In August of 1990, Comrat declared itself an autonomous republic, but the Moldovan government annulled the declaration as unconstitutional. |
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