Palada

Palada was a settlement in the southern Bessarabian plains, near the northern end of Lake Yalpuh. Its history belongs to the borderlands between Moldavia and the steppe, where conflict with Ottoman and Tatar forces repeatedly disturbed the region. An account of the locality describes the medieval town of Palada as destroyed in the sixteenth century. The broad lake and the lowlands around it remained landmarks of this countryside north of the lower Danube.