Kadzhibey Liman

The Khadzhibey Liman is a long coastal lagoon northwest of the Black Sea settlement of Khadzhibey. A map of 1766 called it the Great Kuyalnik; it later took the name of the nearby fortress. The shallow, saline waters belonged to a coast known for its salt, collected from neighbouring estuaries and carried inland. In the eighteenth century Khadzhibey's harbour and fort linked this coast to Ottoman trade and to the struggles between the Ottoman and Russian empires.