Beauty of Gagauz Culture

Beauty of the Gagauz culture and people. Branch of the Altaic family: Turkic Sorry this video is so short. Gagauz pictures are hard to find. The Gagauz is predominantly Eastern Orthodox Turkic ethnic group in southern Moldova (Gagauzia) and southwestern Ukraine (Budjak) that number around 250,000. According to one of the theories the Gagauz descend from the Seljuk Turks that settled in Dobruja (Bulgarian: Dobrudzha (Добруджа); Turkish: Dobruca; Romanian: Dobrogea) alongside the Pechenegs, Uz (Oghuz) and Cuman (Kipchak) people that followed the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Kaykaus II (1236-1276). More specifically, one clan of Oghuz Turks migrated to the Balkans during the inter-tribal conflicts with other Turks. After settling in the eastern Balkans (Bulgaria) this clan converted from Islam to Orthodox Christianity in the 13th century and became known as "Gagauz Turks". Quoted from Wikipedia. Learn more from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauz_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauzia The song is called Mari Kýz and a free mp3 can be found here: http://altaiccultureandhistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-turkic-folk-music-part-1_580.html