Bakota

Bakota lay on the left bank of the Dniester in Podolia, beneath the cliffs that sheltered an Orthodox cave monastery. In the Middle Ages it was a fortified centre of the river valley. Its position made it a point of contention as Poland and Lithuania struggled for Podolia. A truce in 1431 treated the district as a neutral frontier zone; an uprising followed and was suppressed, while the town's fortifications were destroyed. By 1434 Bakota belonged to the Polish Crown's Podolian voivodeship.