🇺🇦 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.
🇺🇦 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.
🇺🇦 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…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Varvarovka
Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1 (3800–3500 BCE) Southern Bug · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 (Varvarovka variant, Usatovo contact)
Varvarovka (Varvarovca) — cluster of Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 settlements Varvarovka VIII and XV (c.3800–3500 BCE, 5–10 ha each) on Southern Bug right bank at Varvarovka village, Mykolaiv NW suburb, Bug…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maydanets
Chalcolithic Trypillia B2 (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia)
Maydanets (Maidanetske) — giant Cucuteni-Trypillia B2 mega-settlement (c.3800–3600 BCE, 200–260 ha, ~1,575–2,900 houses, 9,000–46,000 estimates) on Talyanka River, Cherkasy.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Vesely Kut
Chalcolithic Trypillia B2 (3800–3650 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Tomashivka)
Vesely Kut — Trypillia B2 mega-settlement (c.3800–3650 BCE, ~150 ha, 1,200+ houses) on Yatran River, Cherkasy, western SBDI cluster with Dobrovody–Maydanetske–Talianki.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Yampil
Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1–C2 (3600–3300 BCE) Podolia Dniester · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1–C2 Podolia (Yampil variant, Usatovo contact)
Yampil (Yampol) — Trypillia C1–C2 settlement cluster (c.3600–3300 BCE, 15 ha, ~200 houses) on Dniester left bank at Yampil bend, Vinnytsia–Moldova border.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maydanets (Maydanetske) Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic (3850–3700 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia C1)
One of Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlements, ca. 250 ha with ~1,575 houses and 13 mega-structures in concentric rings, occupied c.3850–3700 BCE (Trypillia CI).
🇺🇦 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.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maidanetske
Trypillia C1 · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Largest Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-site (c.3900–3600 BCE, 200 ha mapped core but estimates to 450 ha, perhaps 46,000 houses phases, peak 12–15k inhabitants), direct neighbour to Talianki forming…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Volodymyrivka
Chalcolithic Trypillia BI (4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia BI (Tomashivka central)
Volodymyrivka — Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3800 BCE, 100 ha, 800 houses) on Synyukha River, Kirovohrad, SBDI central cluster between Nebelivka and Dobrovody.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Nebelivka
Trypillia B2–C1 · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-site (approx 4100–3600 BCE, 260–300 ha, 1,000+ mapped houses) renowned for the burnt temple mega-structure (60×20 m, 1,200 m²) with seven altars, painted vessels, and a clay…
🇺🇦 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…