Ceadîr-Lunga (, also spelled ''Ceadâr-Lunga'';
Gagauz: ''Çadır-Lunga'') is a city and municipality
LEGE Nr. 248 din 03.11.2016 pentru modificarea și completarea Legii nr. 764-XV din 27 decembrie 2001 privind organizarea administrativ-teritorială a Republicii Moldova
in Gagauzia
Gagauzia or Gagauz-Yeri, or ; ro, Găgăuzia; russian: Гагаузия, Gagauziya officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia; ro, Unitatea Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia, ''UTAG''; russian: Автономное территор ...
, Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnist ...
.
Demographics
The city's population is 19,401, of which the declared ethnicities are:
*14,294 Gagauzians
The Gagauz ( gag, Gagauzlar) are a Turkic people living mostly in southern Moldova (Gagauzia, Taraclia District, Basarabeasca District) and southwestern Ukraine (Budjak). Gagauz are mostly Eastern Orthodox Christians. The term Gagauz is also of ...
*1,552 Russians
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*1,510 Bulgarians
Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe.
Etymology
Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not complete ...
*734 Moldovans
Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians ( ro, moldoveni , Moldovan Cyrillic: молдовень), are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and the largest ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova (75.1% of the population as of 2014) and a si ...
*951 Ukrainians
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*166 Gypsies
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*8 Poles
*7 Jews
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*179 other/undeclared.
Twin towns – Sister cities
Ceadîr-Lunga is twinned
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* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
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with:
* Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in t ...
, Turkey
* Serpukhov
Serpukhov ( rus, Серпухов, p=ˈsʲɛrpʊxəf) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Oka and the Nara Rivers, south from Moscow ( from Moscow Ring Road) on the Moscow—Simferopol highway. The Moscow— Tu ...
, Russia
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* Titusville, Florida
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Titusville is located along the Indian River, west of Merritt Island and ...
, United States
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Gallery
File:Stamp of Moldova md425.jpg, Girls from Ceadîr-Lunga (1960). Mihai Grecu.
File:Chadyr-Lunga nunnery.JPG, Ceadîr-Lunga, women Monastery
File:Chadyr-Lunga Cultural centre.jpg, House of Culture and monument of Mihail Ciachir
File:Chadyr-Lunga church.JPG, Church of Our Lady of Kazan
''Our Lady of Kazan'', also called ''Mother-of-God of Kazan'' (russian: Казанская Богоматерь, translit=Kazanskaya Bogomater'), is a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian Orthodox Church, representing the Virgin Ma ...
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Moldova
Municipalities of Moldova
Bendersky Uyezd
Tighina County (Romania)
Ținutul Nistru
Gagauzia
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