🇺🇦 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.
🇲🇩 Moldova · Ancient city
Petreni
Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia BII (4000–3650 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Moldovan BII, Petreni variant)
Petreni (Petreny) — Cucuteni-Trypillia BII mega-settlement (c.4000–3650 BCE, 30 ha, 500+ houses) on Cubolta terrace between Petreni and Sofia, Drochia District, northern Moldova.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Dobrovody
Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia B1–B2 (c.4100–3700 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia, Tomashivka group)
Dobrovody (Dobrovodi) — Cucuteni-Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3700 BCE, 150–250 ha, 700+ houses, up to 16,200 estimated inhabitants per 2014 research) west of Dobrovody village, Cherkasy, on loess…
🇲🇩 Moldova · Ancient city
Petreni Cucuteni-Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic (4000–3600 BCE, Cucuteni A–B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Moldovan mega-settlement of Cucuteni A–B / Trypillia BII, 30–35 ha, c.4000–3600 BCE, with ca. 500 houses in oval ring and two mega-structures.
🇺🇦 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.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Trușești Cucuteni Settlement on the Jijia
Precucuteni to Horodiștea, peak Cucuteni A–B (4800–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
One of Moldova's largest Cucuteni tells — Țuguieta mound 9 m stratigraphy (Precucuteni III to Cucuteni B1, Horodiștea) at Trușești, excavated by M. Petrescu-Dîmbovița 1951–61.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Hăbășești Cucuteni Settlement
Chalcolithic Cucuteni A (c.4500–4000 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Cucuteni A)
Type site for Cucuteni A excavated by Vl. Dumitrescu 1937–38, a 2 ha fortified village on a promontory with ditch and palisade enclosing ca.30–40 burned houses.
🇺🇦 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…
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Ruginoasa–Dealul Drăghici Cucuteni Palace
Cucuteni A–B (c.4200–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
Famous 'palace' at Ruginoasa–Dealul Drăghici, a 32×16 m Cucuteni A3 burned building with timber lacing, painted floors and 2-storey interpretation, excavated by H. Dumitrescu.
🇲🇩 Moldova · Ancient village
Stolniceni Cucuteni–Trypillia Settlement
Cucuteni B1/Trypillia BII (c.4050–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
8 ha Cucuteni B1 fortified promontory at Stolniceni–Cetate (Stolniceni I) on the Cubolta meander, with ditch-palisade and 50+ burned houses in oval. Excavations by V.