🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Euroea (Epirus)
Euroea or Euroia (Ancient Greek: Εὔροια; also transcribed as Eurœa) was a city in Epirus, in western Greece, during late antiquity. It was abandoned in the early 7th century due to Slavic invasions.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maidanetske
Trypillia C1 · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Largest Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-site (c.3900–3600 BCE, 200 ha mapped core but estimates to 450 ha, perhaps 46,000 houses phases, peak 12–15k inhabitants), direct neighbour to Talianki forming…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient city
Solnitsata (Provadia-Solnitsata)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo–Varna sequence) · Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița associated
Earliest prehistoric town in Europe (c.5600–4350 BCE, Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic) — fortified stone-walled (3 m thick) salt-production centre at Mirovo rock salt spring, the oldest salt mine in…
🇦🇱 Albania · Ancient city
Hadrianopolis (Epirus)
Hadrianopolis or Hadrianoupolis (Ancient Greek: Ἁδριανούπολις) was an ancient town in the valley of the river Drino, in the province of ancient Epirus and Illyricum.
🇦🇹 Austria · Ancient city
Aguntum
The ruins of Aguntum are an ancient Roman site in East Tirol, Austria, located approximately four kilometres (2.5 mi) east of Lienz in the Drau valley.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Borremose
Borremose is a raised bog in central Himmerland, Denmark south east of the town of Aars. The name translates directly as 'Borre'-bog, where 'Borre' might well be a derivation of the old word burgh…
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Canosa di Puglia
Canosa di Puglia, generally known simply as Canosa (Canosino: Canaus), is a town and comune in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, southern Italy.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Cassandreia
Cassandreia or Cassandrea (Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρεια, Kassándreia) was once one of the most important cities in Ancient Macedonia, founded by and named after Cassander in 316 BC.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Dankirke
Dankirke was a Danish Iron Age settlement in south-west Jutland, located near the later town of Ribe. It was divided into East Dankirke and West Dankirke.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Deriivka
Deriivka (Ukrainian: Деріївка, Russian: Дериевка; the notoriously mistaken notation "Dereivka" was introduced by a translation of D.Ya.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Gene fornby
Gene Fornby is a reconstructed Iron Age settlement just outside Örnsköldsvik, in Västernorrland County, Sweden.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Talianki – Cucuteni-Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic, Trypillia BII Cucuteni A-B · Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
3850 BCE 450-ha burnt-house proto-city—6,000 inhabitants, Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlement.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Dura-Europos
Hellenistic-Parthian-Roman · Seleucid → Parthian → Roman
Macedonian-Euphrates cliff city (303 BCE–256 CE) called 'Pompeii of the Desert' — garrison of Parthian-Roman frontier buried under a Roman siege embankment that preserved the world's earliest…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Bilsk Hillfort – Gelonus
Early Iron Age, Scythian period · Scythian-agrarian (Budini, possibly Geloni Greeks per Herodotus)
4,400-ha 7th-c. BCE Scythian mega-hillfort—largest in Europe, Herodotus's wooden Gelonus candidate.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Dvin — Ancient Capital of Armenia
Late Antiquity to Medieval (4th–13th century; peak 7th–10th) · Arsacid Armenia → Sasanian marzpan → Arab Dabil emirate → Bagratuni → Seljuk
100 ha medieval Silk Road capital — trilobed palace, glazed-market vault and ceramic aqueduct.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hasankeyf
Assyrian to Ottoman (12th c. BCE–1920); peak Artukid–Ayyubid 12th–13th century · Assyrian → Roman → Byzantine → Artukid Kurdish → Ayyubid → Ottoman
Cliff-cut Tigris citadel with 10,000 caves, Artukid bridge and salvage-relocated Timurid tomb now under reservoir.
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient city
Heuneburg Hillfort — Herbertingen-Hundersingen
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt D, c.620–500 BCE) · Early Celtic (Hallstatt west, Hunsrück? Hallstatt princely)
The Heuneburg (Hallstatt D1, c.600–540 BCE) is Central Europe's earliest princely seat (Fürstensitz) on a 3-hectare plateau 40 m above the Danube near Hundersingen, famed for its Mediterranean-style…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maydanets (Maydanetske) Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic (3850–3700 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia C1)
One of Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlements, ca. 250 ha with ~1,575 houses and 13 mega-structures in concentric rings, occupied c.3850–3700 BCE (Trypillia CI).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Nagarjunakonda
Satavahana to Ikshvaku Late Andhra 200 BCE–400 CE · Ikshvaku / Mahayana Buddhist
Vast Ikshvaku dynasty capital and Buddhist university city (c.200–400 CE) on Krishna River, 30+ Buddhist monasteries with 9 mahastupas, Brahminical temples and Europe's largest collection of early…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Talianki
Trypillia C1 (Cucuteni B2) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia mega-site phenomenon)
Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement (c.3850–3700 BCE, 450 ha, perhaps 15,000 inhabitants) — largest city in Europe at that time, larger than Uruk contemporary — with concentric burnt houses (2,700…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Trypillia
Neolithic–Chalcolithic Trypillia A–C2 (5500–3500 BCE) type · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Eastern branch) — Khvoika's Tripolye
Trypillia (Trypillya/Tripolye) — eponymous type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1893–97 by Vikentiy Khvoika on Dnieper right bank 40 km south Kyiv.
🇩🇪 Germany · Submerged site
Vineta – Legendary Baltic Sunken Trading City off Usedom
Early Medieval (8th–12th c. CE) · Wendish Slav / Viking / hypothesized
Baltic Atlantis — Adam of Bremen Jumne 1075, claimed sunken off Usedom/Wollin with Koserow pavement at −5 m (contested glacial till).