Review:"Among the most impressive
contributions to this volume is James Kapalo’s effort to rescue the Gagauz
people of southern Moldavia (a Christian people of Turkic descent) from academic obscurity. The meat of his study, a fascinating account of successful
efforts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to codify the Gagauz
language (which invariably involved competing claims about the ethnic origins of
the Gagauz people) should be essential reading for anyone interested in
identity formation in Central Europe." (Thomas A, Larman, Central Europe 10:1 (2012), p. 80)