| LC control no. | n 98109975 |
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| Geographic heading | Găgăuzia (Moldova) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Moldova--Găgăuzia |
| Variant(s) | Gagauz Republic (Moldova) Gagauz Autonomous Region (Moldova) GAR Gagauz-Yeri (Moldova) Unitate Teritorială Autonomă cu Statut Special Găgăuzia (Moldova) Gagaouzie (Moldova) Gagauz Eri (Moldova) Gagauzii︠a︡ (Moldova) Gagauziya (Moldova) Unitate Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia (Moldova) |
| Found in | Report on the Moldovan parliamentary elections, 1998: p. 2 (Gagauzia; In August 1990 a Gagauz Soviet Socialist Republic [no publs. in LC data base] was proclaimed with its capital in the city of Comrat. In 1994, Chisinau and Comrat reached a power sharing agreement that created the Gagauz Autonomous Region (GAR) and granted it significant autonomy. The GAR is not a territorially-contiguous entity, but consists of a number of towns and villages in the vicinity of Comrat that voted for inclusion in the GAR. The GAR has a separate legislative assembly which deals with strictly regional issues) Yahoo, 12-14-98 (Gagauz Republic) Britannica on line, 12-14-98 (Gagauz Republic located in Moldova) Foreign names information bulletin, Nov. 30, 1998 (Găgăuzia [short form], (Gagauz-Yeri), Unitate Teritorială Autonomă cu Statut Special--ADMD (MD23), 46°10ʹN 28°40ʹE) Voyage au pays des Gagaouzes, c2007: p. 15 (Gagaouzie) Materialy mezhdunarodnoĭ nauchno-prakticheskoĭ konferent︠s︡ii, posvi︠a︡shchennoĭ 7-oĭ godovshchine Gagauz Eri (Gagauzii), 2003: v. 1, p. 55 (Gagauziya [in rom.]) GEOnet, Sept. 14, 2009: (Găgăuzia, Unitate Teritorială Autonomă (BGN standard); Găgăuzia (short); 46°10ʹN 28°40ʹE) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm1; 46°10ʹ00ʺN 028°40ʹ00ʺE) |
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