• Ukraine (Budjak). Gagauz are mostly Eastern Orthodox Christians. The term Gagauz is also often used as a collective naming of Turkic people living in the...
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    Gagauz (gagauz dili or gagauzça) is a Turkic language spoken by the Gagauz people of Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey and it is an official language...
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    The Gagauz Republic (Gagauz: Gagauz Respublikası, [ɡɑɡɑˈus rɪsˈpublʲɪkəsə]; Romanian: Republica Găgăuzia, [reˈpublika ɡəɡəˈuzia]; Russian: Республика...
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    Gagauzia (redirect from Gagauz-Yeri)
    territorial unit of Moldova. Its autonomy is intended for the local Gagauz people, a Turkic-speaking, primarily Orthodox ethnic group. Bessarabia, previously...
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    discomfort in the Gagauz people, mostly Gagauz- or Russian-speaking and which remembered the previous rule of the Kingdom of Romania over Gagauz-populated lands...
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    groups include the Altai people, Azerbaijanis, Chuvash people, Gagauz people, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz people, Turkmens, Turkish people, Tuvans, Uyghurs, Uzbeks...
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  • Gagauz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gagauz or Gagauzian may refer to: The Gagauz people, an ethnic group living in Moldova and Ukraine Gagauz people...
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    Flag of Gagauzia (redirect from Gagauz flag)
    Gagauzia (Gagauz: Gagauz Yerin bayraa, Romanian: Steagul Găgăuziei, Russian: Флаг Гагаузии) has served as an official symbol of the Gagauz Territorial...
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    people coming from Central Asia bearing Turkic languages." Turkey portal Gagauz people Turkmens Azerbaijanis Meskhetian Turks Tahtacı Yörüks Turkophilia Anti-Turkish...
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  • The modern Gagauz alphabet is a 31-letter Latin-based alphabet modelled on the Turkish alphabet and Azerbaijani. It is used to write the Gagauz language...
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  • Gagauz cuisine refers to the culinary practices of the Gagauz people. Its emphasis on dairy products and meats can be traced to the Gagauz's nomadic past...
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    Gagauz Halkı ("Gagauz People") was a Gagauz separatist political party in Moldova. It was led by Stepan Bulgar [ro] from at least as early as 1992 until...
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    Zinchuk classified it as East Slavic type SUS 433B. In a tale from the Gagauz people with the title "Заколдованный молодец" ("Enchanted Youth"), an old couple...
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    plans to get rid of him by setting dangerous tasks. In a tale from the Gagauz people, Concerning the Sun, collected by Moshkov and translated by Charles...
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    Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Sephardi Jews, as well as by the Gagauz people. Similar usage by Christians and Sikhs in Peninsular Malaysia has recently...
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  • Gajal (category Turkic peoples)
    Pechenegs and Cumans. They are closely related to the Gagauz people, leading to claims that the Gagauz are the Christian part, while the Gajal are the Muslim...
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    ring to summon a bay mount and win the challenge. In a tale from the Gagauz people with the title "Кюллю-Пиперчу" ("Kyullyu Piperchu"), an old man finds...
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    Gagauz people into the Imperial Russian Army, education in the Gagauz language, free medical care and others. During this period, the idea of Gagauz territorial...
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    The People's Assembly of Gagauzia (Gagauz: Gagauziyanin Halk Topluşu, Romanian: Adunarea Populară a UTA Găgăuzia, Russian: Народное Собрание Гагаузии)...
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  • Samoyedic, and Udmurt. Turkic languages, including Azeri, Bashkir, Chuvash, Gagauz, Kazakh, Nogai, Tatar, Turkish, Crimean Tatar. Semitic languages, including:...
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    Gagauz World Congress (Gagauz: Dünnä gagauzların kongresi) is held every three years in the capital of Gagauzia, Comrat town. It collects the Gagauz people...
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    (1940–1941 and 1944–1991), and Moldova (1917–1918 and 1991 to date). The Gagauz people are said to be descended from the Seljuk Turks that settled in Dobruja...
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  • proposed that Gagauz people and some of the Manav People are descendant of Uzes. According to that view the origin of the name Gagauz is Gök Oguz ("Sky...
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    Oghuz Turks (category History of the Turkish people)
    (founders of the Seljuk Empire) Azerbaijani people Qashqai people Gagauz people Turkish people Turkmen people Salar people Anatolia Abdal of Turkey Yörüks Tahtacı...
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    issue of the autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia. The Gagauz people are a Turkic-speaking people spread between southern Moldova and the south-west of...
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    reveal the whole truth to the king. In a variant collected from the Gagauz people by Russian ethographer Valentin A. Moshkov [ru], "Три сестры: дѣвушка...
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  • Oğuzhan (section People)
    Turks who migrated to northwest and were the ancestors of the modern Gagauz people. There are also groups named as Üçoğuz (Three Oğuz), Sekizoğuz (Eight...
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    Cumans (redirect from Cuman people)
    the Cumans. The Gagauz people are believed by some historians to be descendants of the Cumans; the name Qipcakli occurs as a modern Gagauz surname.: 47 ...
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    Transnistria  Gagauzia People: Gagauz people Proposed State: Gagauz Republic Political organisation: Peoples of Union of Gagauzia Frisia People: Frisians, West...
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    Census); it is also spoken as a primary language by other ethnic minorities. Gagauz, Russian, and Ukrainian languages are granted official regional status in...
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