[UKRAINE / BESSARABIAN GAGAUZ / CHERNIVTSI OBLAST] Besarabiela Gagauzlarân Istoriesâ (Istoria Gâgâuzilor din Basarabia). [i.e. The history of Gagauzs from Bessarabia]. Traducere din revista "Viata Basarabiel" pe anul 1933 No. 9 sl 1934 No. 5

MIHAIL CIACHIR, (1861-1938), Tipografia Tiparul Moldovenesc, Chisinau, 1934. Missing covers with original end-papers. Slight tears on end-papers. Overall a good copy. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Gagauz Turkish. 40, 4 p., b/w ills. First edition of this extremely rare translation in book form, which is the first comprehensive book on the Bessarabian Gagauz people, translated from the magazine "Viata Bessarabiei" in 1933... Ciachir worked for the Romanian magazine titled "Viata Basarabiei" [i.e. The life of Bessarabia] between 1933-34.Mihail Ciachir (or Çakir) was a Protoiereus and educator in the Gagauz language, and the first publisher of Gagauz books in the erstwhile Russian Empire and in the Soviet Union. Ciachir was born in the Bessarabian village of Ceadîr-Lunga, in a Gagauz deacon's family.Bessarabia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two-thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with