Mahala Lagoon
Mahala Lagoon (Ukrainian: Магала, Магалевське озеро, Romanian: Lacul Mahala) is a small salty lagoon in the Tuzly Lagoons group, Ukraine. The total area is 76 ha. It is located west of the Shahany Lagoon, near the village of Tryhatky, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion of Odesa Oblast. From the Shahany Lagoon it is separated by a sandbar.
The name of the lagoon originates from Arabic mähallä, from the root meaning "to settle", "to occupy".
References
- ^ Yanko M.P. (1998) Топонімічний словник України: Словник-довідник. Archived 2016-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Kyiv: Znannia, 432 с.
Sources
- Starushenko L.I., Bushuyev S.G. (2001) Prichernomorskiye limany Odeschiny i ih rybohoziaystvennoye znacheniye. Astroprint, Odesa, 151 pp. (in Russian)
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