Gagauz Republic
Gagauz Republic | |||||||||||
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| 1989–1995 | |||||||||||
Map of the territory claimed by the Gagauz Republic. Its control over this area was relative. | |||||||||||
| Status | Self-proclaimed state | ||||||||||
| Capital | Comrat 46°19′N 28°40′E / 46.317°N 28.667°E | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Gagauz, Romanian, Russian | ||||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||||
| Establishment | |||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• The Gagauz ASSR is unilaterally proclaimed | 12 November 1989 | ||||||||||
• Gagauz ASSR unilaterally raised into the Gagauz SSR separate from the Moldavian SSR | 19 August 1990 | ||||||||||
| 26 December 1991 | |||||||||||
| 14 January 1995 | |||||||||||
• Established | 12 November 1989 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 14 January 1995 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Soviet ruble, Moldovan cupon, Moldovan leu | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Moldova | ||||||||||
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The Gagauz Republic (Gagauz: Gagauz Respublikası, [ɡɑɡɑˈus rɪsˈpublʲɪkəsə]; Romanian: Republica Găgăuzia, [reˈpublika ɡəɡəˈuzia]; Russian: Республика Гагаузия, romanized: Respublika Gagauziya, [rɪsˈpublʲɪkə ɡɐɡəˈuzɪjə]) was a self-proclaimed unrecognised political entity, first declared in 1989, that separated from Moldova in 1990 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union but later peacefully joined Moldova after being de facto independent from 1991 to 1995.