Comrat (Romanian: Comrat, Romanian pronunciation: [komˈrat]; Gagauz: Komrat, Russian: Комрат) is a city and municipality[3] in Moldova and the capital of the autonomous region of Gagauzia.

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,[4] after the territory was annexed by Russia from Moldavia in 1812.

In 1906, the village revolted against the Russian authorities and proclaimed the autonomous (but not independent) Comrat Republic.

During World War II, it was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, before it was recaptured by Romania in 1941.

Comrat has a humid continental climate (Dfa), characterized by warm summers and cool, drier winters with snow.