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).

[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.

[3] Khvoika reported his findings in 1897 to the 11th Congress of Archaeologists, marking the official date of the discovery of this culture.

In 1919 it was the venue of the Trypillia Incident, in which Ukrainian forces under Danylo Terpylo massacred a unit of Bolsheviks.

Nineteenth-century view of Trypillia, prior to damming of the Dnieper River (Regional Archeological Museum)
Trypillian pots (Regional Archeological Museum)