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Vulcănești
Vulcănești (; gag, Valkaneş) is a town in Gagauzia, Moldova. The area of Vulcănești is the southern exclave of Gagauzia surrounded by the Cahul District (Moldova) and Odessa Region (Ukraine). One village-rail station also named Vulcănești, is administered by the city. It was the site of an archaeological investigation, which found a Neolithic sculpture that echoes Rodin's The Thinker. Media * Vocea Basarabiei 106.7 See also * Budjak Budjak or Budzhak ( Bulgarian and Ukrainian: Буджак; ro, Bugeac; Gagauz and Turkish: ''Bucak''), historically part of Bessarabia until 1812, is a historical region in Ukraine and Moldova. Lying along the Black Sea between the Danube ... * Carbalia References Cities and towns in Moldova Gagauzia {{Gagauzia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagauzia
Gagauzia or Gagauz-Yeri, or ; ro, Găgăuzia; russian: Гагаузия, Gagauziya officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia; ro, Unitatea Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia, ''UTAG''; russian: Автономное территориальное образование Гагаузия, Avtonomnoye territoriaľnoye obrazovaniye Gagauziya, АТОГ (ATUG), is an autonomous territorial unit of Moldova. Its autonomy is ethnically motivated by the predominance in the region of the Gagauz people, who are primarily Orthodox Turkic-speaking people. At the end of World War I, all of the territory of Gagauzia became part of the Kingdom of Romania, before being carved up into the Soviet Union in June 1940. From 1941 to 1944 it was again part of Romania, after which it was incorporated into the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. As the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, Gagauzia declared independence in 1990 as the Gagauz Republic, but was integrated into Moldova in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |