Balikley

Balikley stood where the Chychykliia joins the Southern Bug, on a river route through the northern Black Sea steppe. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it was a town of the Golden Horde, with a mint whose coins bear the names of several khans. The river mouth connected the settlement with the wider Bug valley. By the sixteenth century the name Chapchakley had come to be used for the place.