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Partially excavated places tagged “forest steppe”

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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 · Hillfort

Nemyriv Scythian Hillfort

Early Scythian (7th–6th century BCE) · Scythian (Forest-Steppe)

Largest Scythian-period fortified settlement between Dnieper and Dniester (110 ha) on both banks of a Boh tributary at Sazhky–Nemyriv, with double earthen ramparts 6 km perimeter (8 m high, 32 m…

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Hillfort

Motronyn Hillfort

Scythian (7th–4th century BCE, peak 500 BCE) · Scythian Forest-Steppe

Massive Scythian hillfort (205 ha) deep in Kholodnyi Yar oak forest near Chyhyryn, with massive earthen ramparts 8 m high enclosing sacred settlement and cemetery. Excavated by M.