Elamur LocationsBalta
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Балта.
English name
Balta — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. ISO 9:1995 gives the same string. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string. ALA-LC (2011) gives the same string.
Other forms in use:
- Bałta — Polish historical spelling, relevant to English histories and Jewish family records.
French name
Balta — Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Bałta — Polish historical form quoted in French studies of the old frontier and Jewish communities.
About
Balta is a town in northern Odesa Oblast on the Kodyma River. Its market-town history reflects a former borderland between Ottoman and Polish territories.
Notes
Do not confuse with Bălți in Moldova. Balta was a centre of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q805554 · JSON
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