Raid on Balta
- When
- mid-June 1768
- Where
- Balta, then part of the Ottoman Empire
- Part of
- Massacre at Balta
Haidamak rebels attacked Ottoman Balta, defeated its Tatar garrison, and sacked the city during the Koliivshchyna.
The Raid on Balta was a military action by insurgent Haidamaks as part of the Koliivshchyna. In mid-June 1768, soon after the massacre at Uman, a detachment of Zalizniak's haidamaks pursued Confederates through Podolia toward the Kodyma River. The Haidamaks attacked Balta, then part of the Ottoman Empire, defeated the Tatar garrison in the city, and sacked it. According to another version, they entered Ottoman territory after the kaymak of Balta refused to give up Poles who had attacked the village of Paliyeve Ozero together with Tatars. The wider Haidamak violence had already forced civilians in Right-Bank Ukraine to escape, sometimes to Ottoman territory.
Sources
- Raid on Balta Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22
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