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# Balta

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](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q805554) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/balta/?format=json)


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