Taraclia (Romanian pronunciation: [taraˈkli.a]; Bulgarian: Тараклия) is a city located in the south of Moldova.

According to official figures, Taraclia was founded in 1813 by Bulgarian immigrants, although they have been settling there much earlier.

[2] The city is one of the oldest Bulgarian settlements of the nineteenth century in what was then the southern Bessarabia.

Having the rights of colonists, they built houses and churches and had children, taking advantage of several decades of privileges granted to them by the Tsarist Russian government.

[3] In the middle of the 19th century, the famous explorer Apollon Skalkowski wrote about them: "Residents, good hosts, herds of large cattle, sheep, and a great deal to the success of horticulture and viticulture, and women bred mulberry trees, collect the cocoons and have silk in large quantities"[4] During the interwar period, the city was the seat of Plasa Traian, in Cahul County, Romania.