Trypillia
Sign in to savethumb|275px|Nineteenth-century view of Trypillia, prior to damming of the Dnieper River (Regional Archeological Museum) Trypillia () 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. Trypillia lies about south from Kyiv on the Dnipro.
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thumb|275px|Nineteenth-century view of Trypillia, prior to damming of the Dnieper River (Regional Archeological Museum) Trypillia () 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. Trypillia lies about south from Kyiv on the Dnipro.
== History == thumb|250px|Trypillian pots (Regional Archeological Museum) It was near Trypillia that the archaeologist Vikentiy Khvoyka discovered an extensive Neolithic site of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, one of the major Neolithic–Chalcolithic cultures of eastern Europe. Khvoika reported his findings in 1897 to the 11th Congress of Archaeologists, marking the official date of the discovery of this culture.