Gagauz Republic
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. == History == The Special Congress of Representatives of the Gagauz people was held on 12 November 1989, in which the Gagauz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in the Moldavian SSR, but on the next day the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Moldavia abolished the Special Congress' decisions, calling them unconstitutional.