Gagauz people in Ukraine

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Distribution of the Gagauz language in the Odesa Oblast according to the 2001 census
Total population
31,923
Regions with significant populations
Odesa Oblast
Languages
Predominantly Gagauz (71.5%), Russian (22.7%), Ukrainian (3.45%)
Religion
Eastern Orthodox

The Gagauz are an ethnic Turkic minority in Ukraine. The total number of the Gagauz diaspora was 31,923 counted in the 2001 census, most of whom (86.51%) live in the Bessarabian region of Odesa Oblast: Izmail, Reni, Kiliya, and Bolhrad raions (districts). [1] [2]

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Place of residence

The Gagauz are speaking Gagauz language who live in Ukraine, mainly in the Odesa region, where they make up 1.1% of the region's population. The number of Gagauz in the period between the 1989 and 2001 censuses increased by 0.9%, and the share of residents of the region - by 0.1%.

Regions of Ukraine by the number of Gagauz in 2001: [3]

Quantity
Odesa Oblast 27617
Mykolaiv oblast 877
Donetsk oblast 494
Crimea 387
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 365
Luhansk oblast 275
Zaporizhzhia Oblast 268
Kherson oblast 239
Kharkiv oblast 205
Other regions1196
All31923

Gagauz live in the south and southwest of Odesa region in Bolhrad (18.7%), Reni (7.9%), Tarutyne (6.0%), Kiliia (3.8%) and Artsyz (1.8%) areas. The number of Gagauz increased in Ivanivka (+ 100.0%), Ovidiopol (+ 100.0%), Bolhrad (+ 0.7%) districts and the city of Izmail (+ 14.3%), slightly decreased in Kiliia (-14, 8%), Artsyz (-10.0%), Tarutyne (-6.9%) and Reni (-5.9%) districts.

The Gagauz also traditionally lived in the south of the Zaporizhzhia region, where they moved from Budzhak with Bulgarians and Albanians after the Crimean War. There the Gagauz population was present in the villages of Oleksandrivka, Vovchanske, Golivka, Dechnya, and Dimitrivka.

Language

The majority of Gagauz (71%) consider Gagauz their mother tongue, a significant proportion (23%) consider Russian their mother tongue.

Native language of Gagauz of Ukraine according to population censuses: [4] [5] [6]

1970 %1989 %2001 %
Gagauz language 23 56489,025 40179,522 82271,5
Russian language 2 1718,25 47817,17 23222,7
Ukrainian language 1550,64501,41 1023,5
Other5742,26382,04961,6

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References

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  2. ↑ "Gagauzy". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Ethnic composition of Georgia 2014". mashke.org. Archived from the original on 2018-11-04.
  4. ↑ Итоги Всесоюзной переписи населения 1970 года. Том IV — М., Статистика, 1973
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