Trypillia
Trypillia (Ukrainian: Трипiлля) is a village in Obukhiv Raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast in central Ukraine, with 2,800 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2005). It belongs to Ukrainka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Trypillia lies about 40 km (25 mi) south from Kyiv on the Dnipro.
Trypillia is the site of an ancient mega-settlement dating to 4300–4000 BCE belonging to the
Cucuteni-Trypillian culture. Settlements of this culture were as large as 200 hectares. This proto-city is just one of 2440 Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements discovered so far in Moldova and Ukraine. 194 (8%) of these settlements had an area of more than 10 hectares between 5000–2700 BCE and more than 29 settlements had an area in the range 100–450 hectares.[2]
History
It was near Trypillia that archaeologist
Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, one of the major Neolithic-Chalcolithic cultures of eastern Europe.[3] Khvoika reported his findings in 1897 to the 11th Congress of Archaeologists, marking the official date of the discovery of this culture.[4]
The name Trypillia means 'three fields' in the
Danylo Terpylo massacred a unit of Bolsheviks
.
See also
Notes
- ^ "Украинская городская громада". Gromada.info (in Russian). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ "2011-2. Archaeology. TRYPILLIA CULTURE PROTO-CITIES: AFTER 40 YEARS OF INVESTIGATIONS". www.trypillia.com. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
- OCLC 228808567.
- ^ Taranec, Natalie. "The Trypilska Kultura - The Spiritual Birthplace of Ukraine?". The Trypillian Civilization Society. Archived from the original on November 2, 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
Bibliography
- Videiko M. Yu. Trypillia Civilization in Prehistory of Europe. Kyiv Domain Archeological Museum, Kyiv, 2005.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trypillia.
- Trypillian Museum
- Ukrainian Neolith
- The Trypillia-USA-Project The Trypillian Civilization Society homepage (in English).
- Trypillian Culture from Ukraine A page from the UK-based group "Arattagar" about Trypillian Culture, which has many great photographs of the group's trip to the Trypillian Museum in Trypillia, Ukraine (in English).