[2][3] Mahala has been part of the Principality of Moldova since its establishment in the historical region of Bukovina.

The first historical mention of village of Mahala dated 1472 in the documents of the Moldavian Lord Stephen the Great.

This village was purchased by the Lord of Moldova for 200 tatar zlotys from Tabuchi from Kobli, his brother Pozhar and their sister Nastasia.

From 1991 to 2020, the village of Mahala was a part of the Noua Suliță/Novoselytsia Raion of the Chernivtsi region of independent Ukraine.

According to the 1989 census, the number of inhabitants of Mahala who declared themselves Romanians plus Moldovans was 2,231 (16 + 2,215), representing 90.40% of the population.

[13] In 2001, in the Mahala rural hromada (rural community) created in 2020, and which included not only the Romanian-speaking villages Mahala, Ostrytsia, Buda, and Prut, and also the overwhelmingly Ukrainian village of Ridkivtsi, with a population of 10,946, 4,467 of the inhabitants (40.81%) spoke Ukrainian as their native language, while 6,346 (57.98%) spoke Romanian (including 36.1%, or 3,592, who called it Moldovan, and 25.16%, or 2,754, who called it Romanian), and 121 (1.11%) spoke Russian.

[15] The following settlements are subordinated to Ridkivtsi village council: On the territory of the community there are: 3 schools, 6 kindergartens, 3 outpatient clinic, 2 houses of culture.