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Places tagged “proto urban” in Ukraine · Mysteria

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Places tagged “proto urban” in Ukraine

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🇺🇦 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.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city

Dobrovody Trypillia Mega-Settlement

Chalcolithic (4100–3400 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia B Imid) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia B1-B2)

Massive Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement on the Tyasmyn basin, 250–260 ha, c.3800–3700 BCE (Trypillia BI–BI–II), with ca. 1,800 houses in concentric oval rings mapped by geomagnetic survey.

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🇺🇦 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…