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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 · Submerged site

Olbia Pontica – Submerged Lower Town

Archaic to Medieval (646 BCE – 4th c. CE; revisited 14th c.) · Milesian Greek / Scythian / Roman / Gothic

Milesian Black Sea emporium whose harbour lower town now lies 1–4 m under Bug–Dnieper liman.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Earthwork

Bilsk Hillfort – Herodotus' Gelonus (Scythian)

Iron Age Scythian (6th–4th c. BCE, origins Bronze Age) · Scythian Budini/Geloni (Herodotus 4.102)

Bilsk Hillfort – Herodotus' Gelonus (Scythian) in Poltava Oblast, Kotelva Raion, Bilsk village, Vorskla river interfluve, Ukraine is a Iron Age Scythian (6th–4th c.