🇺🇦 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 · 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…
🇺🇦 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.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Hillfort
Khotiv Hillfort
Scythian (6th–4th century BCE) · Scythian / Early Slavic (reuse)
Well-preserved Scythian promontory hillfort at Khotiv on Kyiv's southern edge (Vita valley), 48 ha with 3 ramparts and ditches enclosing a plateau with Scythian houses and later Zarubintsy reuse.