Joltai
Joltai
Coltay | |
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 Holy Trinity church in Joltai | |
  Joltai Location of Joltai in Moldova | |
| Coordinates: 46°10′57″N 28°52′34″E / 46.18250°N 28.87611°E | |
| Country |  Moldova |
| Autonomous Region |  Gagauzia |
| Founded | 1765 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ilya Koshulinsky[1] |
| Population (2024) | |
• Total | 1,111 |
| Ethnicity (2024 census) | |
| • Gagauz people | 95.94% |
| • Bulgarians | 1.71% |
| • other | 2.35% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| Climate | Cfb |
| Website | joltai.md |
Joltai (Gagauz: Coltay), also spelled as Djoltai is a commune and village in the Ceadîr-Lunga district, Gagauz Autonomous Territorial Unit of the Republic of Moldova. According to the 2024 Moldovan census the commune has 1,111 people, 1,066 (95.94%) of them being Gagauz.[2]
History
[edit]The site of the village used to be a Nogai Tatar settlement. The land was said to be very poor and yellow, which is why it was given the name Coltay, translated as "yellow land". The modern village was founded around the year 1765, by settlers from Dobruja.[3] In 1847 the "Holy Trinity church" was built by a Romanian landowner.[4]
Notable people
[edit]- Natalia Șoșeva (born 1964), Moldovan pharmacist and politician[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20260405105009/https://www.gagauzia.md/ru/administracziya-regiona/primarii/primariya-s.-dzholtaj.html
- ↑ https://statistica.gov.md/en/statistic_indicator_details/60 Final Results of the Population and Housing Census 2024 - Population and Housing Census 2024: Ethno-cultural Characteristics (in Romanian)
- ↑ "с. Джолтай" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2026-04-04. Retrieved 2026-04-14.
- ↑ Duminika, Ivan (2016). "„Monografiile" comunelor plasei Comrat, județul Tighina, din 1943 (I)". Revista de Etnologie şi Culturologie (in Romanian). XX (2): 68–78. ISSN 1857-2049.
- ↑ Enache, Natalia (October 18, 2016). "La Joltai lupta se dă între vice-președintele Adunării Populare a Găgăuziei, un proprietar al unei rețele de televiziune și un agronom" [In Joltai, the Fight is Between the Vice-President of the People's Assembly of Gagauzia, an Owner of a Television Network and an Agronomist]. MoldovaCurata.md (in Romanian). Retrieved 2023-04-24.
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