Re: Gagauz [was The Vlach Connection]

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From: "tolgs001" <st-george@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Subject: [tied] Re: The Vlach Connection
> S & L wrote:
> >The gagauz are listed as bulgarians.
>
> But they are (Christian) Turks, speaking Turkish.
> (Gagauz is a probable reflex of Oguz.)
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From http://www.jmu.edu/orgs/wrni/gagauzia24.htm
"It is most likely that all these populations, the Petchenegs, the Uz, and
the Cumans, formed the substratum of the Gagauz people".

But here are also other theories listed.

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