Editing Comrat (section)

== History ==
[[File:Interbelic Comrat CoA.png|left|thumb|upright=0.65|The first seal of Comrat (1932–2005)]]
Comrat was first settled as early as 1443, with other sources claiming it was founded in 1789. Nevertheless, the settlement was sparsely populated until the new Russian government issued a decree in 1819 to resettle the region with [[Bulgarians]] and other nationalities from across the [[Danube]],<ref name=":2">http://aboutmoldova.md/ro/view_free.php?id=365 (in Romanian)</ref> after the territory was annexed by [[Russian Empire|Russia]] from [[Moldavia]] in 1812.

In 1906, the village revolted against the Russian authorities and proclaimed the autonomous (but not independent) [[Comrat Republic]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=http://vfokuse.md/news/index.php?newsid=1011|title=107 лет назад в Буджаке была провозглашена Комратская республика|newspaper=vfokuse.md|date=9 January 2013|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820160930/http://vfokuse.md/news/index.php?newsid=1011|archive-date=20 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news|url=http://gagauzinfo.md/g1/2543-106-let-nazad-byla-provozglashena.html|title=106 лет назад была провозглашена Комратская республика|newspaper=Gagauzinfo.MD|date=9 January 2012|language=ru}}</ref> Following [[World War I]], it was part of [[Kingdom of Romania]]. During [[World War II]], it was [[Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina|occupied by the Soviet Union]] in 1940, before it was recaptured by Romania in 1941.

During the time when the town was part of [[Moldavian SSR]], Comrat's industry was geared toward the production of [[butter]], [[wine]], and [[Carpet|rug]]s, the latter decorated with [[Moldavia]]n motifs. The [[Comrat State University]] was established in 2002.