Description of the attraction
The ancient city of Bakota is located on the left bank of the Dniester River. In the XIII century, the city of Bakota was in Ponizya (“region” in the Galicia-Volyn principality) the administrative center, occupied an area of approximately ten hectares, and the population was about 2,5 thousand people. The first chronicle record about this city dates back to 1240.
During archaeological excavations on the territory of the ancient city, traces of ancient settlements from the late Paleolithic and Neolithic times were discovered. At the same time, the remains of a Slavic settlement of the Chernyakhov culture, which existed in the II-VI centuries, were investigated. BC, settlements from the times of Ancient Rus, as well as the remains of a settlement and an Orthodox rocky monastery from the period of the XII-XIII centuries.
In 1431, when Lithuania and Poland signed an armistice, the city became a border town. The consequence of this was an uprising of the population, during which the landowners were killed, and the territory of the city was proclaimed independent. Three years later, the riot was brutally suppressed by Polish troops. The perpetrators of the riot were punished, their houses were burned, the castle was destroyed, and the population was dispersed. Thus, Bakota ceased to exist as a city.
In the following centuries, Bakota existed as a small settlement with a calm basis of life. Even such large-scale events as the famine of 1933 and the hostilities of World War II did not affect her. Although with the advent of Soviet power, the territory again became a border (the border with Romania passed along the Dniester River). Bakota ended its existence in 1981, when for the construction of the Novodnistrovskaya hydroelectric power station it was decided to raise the water level in the Dniester, which resulted in the flooding of coastal villages.
Today Bakota is a part of the bank of the Dniester, on which only the remains of a rocky monastery have survived.
