{{Short description|Rural locality in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine}} thumb|275px|Nineteenth-century view of Trypillia, prior to damming of the Dnieper River (Regional Archeological Museum) '''Trypillia''' ({{langx |uk|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.<ref name="admreform_2020_ukrainka">{{cite web|title= Украинская городская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/ukrainka/ |work=Gromada.info|language= ru|accessdate= 16 June 2022}}</ref> Trypillia lies about {{convert|40|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} 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.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Mantu | first = Cornelia-Magda | title = Cucuteni–Tripolye cultural complex: relations and synchronisms with other contemporaneous cultures from the Black Sea area | journal = Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica | volume = VII | pages = 267 | publisher = Iaşi University | location = Iaşi, Romania | date = 2000 | url = http://cisa.uaic.ro/saa/no7.htm | oclc = 228808567}}</ref> Khvoika reported his findings in 1897 to the 11th Congress of Archaeologists, marking the official date of the discovery of this culture.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Taranec |first=Natalie |title=The Trypilska Kultura - The Spiritual Birthplace of Ukraine? |publisher=The Trypillian Civilization Society |url=http://www.trypillia.com/articles/eng/re1.shtml |accessdate=21 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102230006/http://www.trypillia.com/articles/eng/re1.shtml |archivedate=November 2, 2009 }}</ref>
The name ''Trypillia'' means 'three fields' in Ukrainian. It was first mentioned by Kyivan chroniclers in connection with the Battle of the Stugna River in 1093. During the 12th century, Trypillia was a fortress that defended approaches towards Kyiv from the steppe. One of its rulers was Mstislav Mstislavich. During the subsequent centuries, the town dwindled into insignificance. In 1919 it was the venue of the Trypillia Incident, in which Ukrainian forces under Danylo Terpylo defeated a unit of Bolsheviks.
==See also== *History of Ukraine *Neolithic Europe
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==Bibliography== *Videiko M. Yu. [http://www.iananu.kiev.ua/privatl/pages/Widejko/index.html Trypillia Civilization in Prehistory of Europe]. Kyiv Domain Archeological Museum, Kyiv, 2005.
==External links== {{commons category|Trypillia}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091029053457/http://www.trypillia.com/museum/index.shtml Trypillian Museum] *[http://faculty.gvsu.edu/nikitin/ Ukrainian Neolith] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091106232051/http://www.trypillia.com/info/index.shtml The Trypillia-USA-Project] The Trypillian Civilization Society homepage (in English). *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091128091014/http://www.arattagar.co.uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia.html 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).
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