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	Encyclopedia article: Gagauz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There are also nearly 20,000 Gagauz living in the Balkan countries of Greece (A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil) and Bulgaria (A republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe).
		The Gagauz language was written in the Greek alphabet (The alphabet used by ancient Greeks) up to 1957, when a modified form of Cyrillic (An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages) was adopted.
		Gagauz nationalism remained an intellectual movement during the 1980's but strengthened by the end of the decade as the Soviet Union began to embrace democratic ideals.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ga/gagauz.htm (915 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Gagauz in Moldova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Gagauz have virtually no risk of rebellion and, given the widespread powers afforded them as a result of the 1994 autonomy agreement, their likelihood of protest remains low.
		Residents of the region share a strong desire for stability and are tolerant of the moderate policies of the Gagauz councils.
		Under Soviet rule the Gagauz were encouraged both to retain their Gagauz heritage and to learn Russian, thus serving as a counterweight to Moldova’s identification with Romania.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=35901 (1192 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Gagauz in Moldova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Gagauz declare a moratorium on the elections and, in exchange, the Moldovan parliament declares a moratorium on the rejection of the Gagauz request for autonomy.
		Gagauz leaders continue to call for territorial and cultural autonomy, but parliament continues to reject their calls for territorial autonomy.
		In the general Gagauz elections, 25 of the 35 seats to the Gagauz Assembly are filled and two presidential candidates are chosen for a runoff election to be held June 11.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=35901 (2829 words)

	World congress on language policies
		In this case, early accommodation of the Gagauz interests through the legal framework stemmed the level of violence that was demonstrated in Transnistria, the eastern part of Moldova, that declared itself an independent republic in 1990 and is providing its own separatist politics.
		Coming back to the Gagauz socio-linguistic model, it should be mentioned that despite the concessions received from the majority, the Gagauz identity remains confused because the majority of them continue to speak Russian instead of their native language.
		Because the Gagauz autonomy leaders declared they were not going to participate in anticipated elections and expressed their disapproval with the central government, the last launched in February another campaign, aiming to demonstrate the incompetence of the Gagauz authorities.
	www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller3/article15_ang.html (4625 words)

	Settlement of Gagauz People in Moldavia
		The Gagauz people that were modest and generous people devoted to their works founded two villages named as Çadır and Orak in Moldavia in the year of 1770.
		Gagauz people who lived under the Russian and Romanian dominion for nearly a century rebelled against both the Russians and Moldavians under the leadership of Atmaca Pavli's Son, Andre'i Galatan in order to protect their national cultures and identities in January 1906.
		Gagauz National Assembly was established on the date of 31st October 1990 and Stefan Topal was elected as the President.
	www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0007/0007_17_04.htm (834 words)

	Gagauzia (Moldova)
		The flag was confirmed by law on 31 October 1995 by the National Assembly (Chalk Topluschu) of Gagauzia (Gagauz Eri).
		The Gagauz are Christians, and have been settled in the areas even before the Ottomans came to that part of Bessarabia.
		The Gagauz national flag is hoisted beside the Moldavian flag on the roof of the Assembly building, whose pediment is still decorated with the arms of the SSR Moldavia in bronze (colour picture in Vexillacta).
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/md-gagau.html (613 words)

	Footnotes to History- G to J
		Gagauz Republic- In August of 1990, Turkish-speaking Christians concentrated in southern Moldova, known as the Gagauz, seceded from Moldova and petitioned Moscow for recognition as a full SSR.
		Moldovan troops arrested seceral Gagauz leaders in the wake of the August 1990 coup in Moscow.
		The Gagauz also seceded from Russia in January of 1906, but this abortive revolution was thwarted by the Russian police two weeks later.
	www.buckyogi.com /footnotes/natgj.htm (5149 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		Gagauz are Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christians that live in Southern Moldova (near towns Comrat, Chadyr, Vulcaneshti) and Ukraine (Odessa region).
		The majority of the neighbouring nations, with whom the Gagauz had had long-lasting cultural and socioeconomic contacts (Bulgarians, Turks, Russians, Romanians), have claimed their kinship to this Turkic group or tried to assimilate it, thus sparking century-long debates over the ethnogenesis of the Gagauz.
		Usage of Gagauz was limited to a family encirclement and mostly to its older generation of speakers.
	www.ogmios.org /134.htm (3216 words)

	Gagauzia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Gagauz are of the once numerous Oguzian tribes that settled in the south- western part of Europe in the 11th century.
		The Gagauz are a people of Turkic decent whose ethno-genesis lies with the Oguz, Petchenegs and Cuman tribes that inhabited the plains of Central Asia, north of the Caspian and Aral Sea between 500 BC and 900 AD[2].
		After the elections of 1995, the Gagauz autonomous republic focused on the revival of Gagauz Turkish culture and established ties with Turkey.
	www.unpo.org /print.php?arg=22&par=45 (1268 words)

	Tabibito's Moldova Guide: Comrat, capital of Gagauzia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Gagauz probably originally settled in the area between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea.
		Gagauz belongs to the →Turkish language group, but all the vocabulary deriving from the qur'ān is missing.
		Today, the Gagauz language and culture is very much supported, esp. thanks to a strong relationship with →Turkey.
	www.tabibito.de /balkan/ecomrat.html (1094 words)

	Moldova
		Gagauz Halkî (Gagauz People) is a second pivotal minority political group, formed to represent Moldova's population of approximately 153,000 Gagauz.
		On August 21, 1990, the Gagauz announced the formation of the "Gagauz Republic" in the five southern raioane where their population was concentrated, separate from the Moldavian SSR and part of the Soviet Union.
		A decision by Gagauz leaders to hold a referendum on the question of local sovereignty was intensely opposed by the republic's government and by the Popular Front.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/moldova/all.html (17058 words)

	GeoNative - Moldavia - Gagauz - Transdniestr - Norhertn Bukovina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bi zerrenda nagusi ditugu hemen izenekin, bata orokorra, bestea hegoalderako, Gagauz formak ere zehaztuz (ikus beherago).
		Gagauz are 3.5% of the population of Moldovaa.
		Gagauz are orthodox crhistians speaking a turkic language, that was written in the greek alphabet till 1957, and afterwars in cyrillic; we do not how they write it now, since Moldavia is independent (there are several romanisation systems in use, it seems).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/moldova.html (754 words)

	Hülya Demirdirek - The painful past retold: Social memory in Azerbaijan and Gagauzia - AnthroBase
		The Gagauz are believed to have fled from northeastern Bulgaria to Russia during and after the Russo-Ottoman war of 1806-12.
		The Gagauz leadership in Komrat and the Moldovan government in Chisinau reached agreement in December 1994 on autonomy for Gagauzia, thereby ending a five-year struggle which had witnessed the existence of a self-proclaimed republic.
		The Gagauz, in contrast, seem predisposed to weaker and less definite expressions of nationalism, since they have the same religious background as their neighbours, and have no larger non-Soviet community with which they may identify unambiguously.
	www.anthrobase.com /Txt/D/Demirdirek_H_01.htm (3673 words)

	News Archives TI - Moldova
		Gagauz has sued the publication over a series of articles themed " "De partea cealalta a Lunii" (On the other side of the Moon), published in February and March, which had claimed that the CFM managed was behind illegal businesses.
		Contacted by BASA, CFM officials said they were not updated with details about the Gagauz vs. Moldavskye Vedomosti case, and their boss was at the time in a business trip outside Moldova.
		In the articles, based on investigations, the newspaper accuses Gagauz, among others, of buying from a plant in the Russian city of Tver 18 passenger carriages for 184,000 dollars one, through intermediaries, while producer's price was 138,000 dollars.
	www.transparency.md /News/an057_en.htm (413 words)

	Welcome to the Gagauz Place - Gagauz Yeri! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The renaissance of Gagauz culture and language is of important status in the new autonomy within moldova.
		GAGAUZ 173,000 in Moldova (1979 Census), 89% speak it as mother tongue, 12,000 in Bulgaria (1982 estimate); 250,000 in all countries (2005).
		Gagauz Place is 80 km south of Chisinau, 25 km to Ukraine and 40 km to Romania.
	www.geocities.com /ai320/gagauzplace.htm (1431 words)

	World congress on language policies
		The Gagauz people conceived statehood as the only way to cultural autonomy and in 1995 the Gagauz Ery - autonomous gagauz Territory as a component part of Moldova was proclaimed.
		For example, while the Gagauz movement for autonomy has resulted in increased attention to the native language in schools and media, it had not yet resulted in a shift from Russian as the primary language of instruction.
		Gagauz children, however, typically study their own language (for 3 hours per week) in primary classes and secondary school as a subject.
	www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller3/article23_ang.html (2389 words)

	REGIONAL CORNER: GAGAUZ-YERI, MOLDOVA
		About 90 percent of the Gagauz population are ethnic Gagauz, a Turkic nationality.
		According to the Gagauz chapter of Moldova’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, over 200 companies are active in Gagauzia, of which 28 are large industrial enterprises.
		These industrial enterprises include 12 large wineries with a capacity to process 400,000 tons of grapes per season, three large grain mills, three feed mills, a tobacco plant with the capacity to process 10,000 tons of fermented tobacco per year, two dairies, and a meat-packing plant and dairy located in Ceadir-Lunga.
	www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bulletin/0003bull6.htm (474 words)

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		The meaning of ethnic minority by the draft was: “The person who lives in the Republic of Moldova territory, who don’t belongs to ethnic groups which constitute the majority population of other ethnic origin.” In the present are registered 120 ethnics groups in Republic of Moldova.
		Gagauz- more than 135000 people of this nationality are living in Moldova, 7000 in Ukraine and 5000 in Bulgaria.
		The Gagauz people consider Moldova as a state in which they must preserve themselves as a ethnos, hence their tendency to have their own statility in the south part of Moldova.
	www.people.hojoster.dk /uploads/presentation_Culeac_Larisa.doc (1192 words)

	Who are Gagauz people and Where do they come from?
		Although the historical and scientific evidences showed that the core group of the ethnical structure of Gagauz people was composed of Oguz people, there have been various different theories alleged in the course of history.
		In the period of Soviet Union, the fact that Gagauz people was an original nation was not neglected and this approach was reflected in all sorts of official documents such as the statistics, state registries, reference books, identity cards, and electoral cards.
		Gagauz people were also introduced in the book titled as "European Peoples of the USSR" published in Moscow in the year of 1954 and the relevant information was given about their ethnical, cultural and social lives.
	www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0007/0007_17_03.htm (952 words)

	RFE/RL iraq Report
		The process by which Gagauz yeri was created is detailed in a paper published by Levente Benko, "Autonomy in Gagauzia: A Precedent for Central and Eastern Europe?" in the current issue of the Internet journal "Bitig." He reviews the history of Moldovan independence, and role played by the Gagauz within it.
		The Gagauz community in southern Moldova is a people of Turkic origin, the ancestors of whom had fled the continuous Balkan wars of the 18th century to Russia.
		Its expressed aim "is to provide for the preservation of Gagauz national identity, the flourishing of the Gagauz language and culture, and to secure political and economic independence for this nationality." The act stresses that within the Gagauz territory all citizens, regardless of ethnicity, are considered to be equal.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/1999/7-190299.html (2290 words)

	The Music Of My Soul - Welcome Moldova Magazine - news, business, culture, education, science, travel, entertainment in ...
		In the Department of Interethnic Relations Dimitrie Gagauz held a musical evening on the occasion of his 55th birth anniversary and 35th anniversary of his teaching and musical career.
		It is not surprising because Gagauz and Turkish are very similar and the music is abundant in Oriental motifs.
		Fisiu’s “Turkish Motifs” and “Gagauz Oiuna” were recognized by many at the concert and some even joined in the singing.
	www.welcome-moldova.com /articles/music_of_soul.shtml (926 words)

	Pros and cons of autonomy for the Hungarian minority in Romania
		Until 1989, Gagauz culture and language were eroded by Soviet influences, but as the end of the USSR became apparent, ethnic revival was stimulated -strangely enough- by Moscow.
		Gagauz is becoming more and more popular and Moldovan is the language used for communication with national institutions.
		As for thecomparisonof the Gagauz situation with Transylvania, the progressive way in which the draft law was prepared for ratification indicates a few differences that can be found between the Moldovan and the Romanian situation.
	www.jeroenvm.dds.nl /romhaut.htm (7181 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Moldova: Costs
		Gagauz identity remains confused because, as a consequence of totalitarian past and russification, the majority of people continue to speak Russian instead of their native language.
		Also, most Gagauz leaders are pro-Russian and they tend to reject Romanian Moldovans constituting the majority.
		In response to Gagauz demands, the central government in 1992 established a new University in Comrat.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=43&TID=5 (207 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Moldova: Background
		The Gagauz elected a new governor (bashkan) and 35 deputies to their popular assembly in free and fair elections in September 1999.
		The Gagauz language became the second state language in the areas with a high proportion of Gagauz population.
		The Gagauz-Halki (people of Gagauz) who had colonized the south of the country in the 18th and 19th Centuries also asked for self-determination for their 157,000 people.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=43&TID=2 (1292 words)

	Gagauz language resources
		Gagauz, a Turkic language of the northeast Balkans.
		Gagauz Yeri and the Dilemmas of Self-Determination by Charles King 20 October 1995 Moldova's creation of an autonomous region for its Turkic Gagauz minority illustrates that devolving power to local...
		Gagauz Sample Translation Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Gagauz.html (1313 words)

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