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Comrat
Sign in to saveComrat (, ; , ) is a city and municipality in Moldova and the capital of the autonomous region of Gagauzia. It is located in the south of the country, on the Ialpug River. The vast majority of the inhabitants are Gagauz.
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Comrat is a city and municipality in Moldova, serving as the capital of the administrative territorial entity of Gagauzia. The settlement has at various times been part of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Romania, and the Soviet Union. Its earliest written record dates to 1770. The city is located in the Eastern European Time zone and has a postal code of MD-3800.
With a population of 20,113, of which 8,637 are male, Comrat covers an area of 16.4 square kilometers. The elevation above sea level is recorded as 52 meters. The local dialing code is 298, and the license plate code is GE. Comrat is twinned with Isparta, North Nicosia, Ceadîr-Lunga, and Budapest District VII.
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Place details
- Locality
- Comrat
- Region
- Gagauzia
- Country
- Moldova
- Population
- 22,911
- Timezone
- Europe/Chisinau
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Comrat
- Settlement.native_name
- Komrat
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- gag
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_flag
- Komrat flag.png
- Settlement.image_seal
- Coat of arms of Comrat.png
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous Region
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1443/1789
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Sergey Anastasov
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 16,4
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2024
- Settlement.population_total
- 19,120
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Understand
In 2014, Comrat's population was 20,000, of which the vast majority were Gagauz.
Food production is very developed in the city. Comrat is a home for food processing factories, alcohol production, and an oil processing plant (the first and only one in Moldova). There is also a ferro-concrete factory, furniture productions, wood processing, production of plastic windows and doors, cattle butcheries, and transport companies.
Comrat is found in the southern wine zone of Moldova. It is known for production of red wine and muscat. In Comrat and its suburbs there are about 10 wineries.
See
right|thumb|upright=1.3|Cathedral of Saint John Baptist
Buy
In Comrat there are the supermarkets "Fourchette" and "Linella" as well as the "Comrat City" mall. You can also buy daily goods at the central market square and the market square in Bugeac. There's a new shopping mall under construction next to the central square.
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Encyclopedic overview
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Comrat (, ; , ) is a city and municipality in Moldova and the capital of the autonomous region of Gagauzia. It is located in the south of the country, on the Ialpug River. The vast majority of the inhabitants are Gagauz.
== History == left|thumb|upright=0.65|The first seal of Comrat (1932–2005) Comrat was first settled as early as 1443, with other sources claiming it was founded in 1789. Nevertheless, the settlement was sparsely populated until the new Russian government issued a decree in 1819 to resettle the region with Bulgarians and other nationalities from across the Danube, after the territory was annexed by Russia from Moldavia in 1812.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Comrat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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