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Cucuteni () is a commune in
A trove of ancient artifacts was discovered in Cucuteni in 1884. It was determined that these artifacts had been produced by an ancient people whose existence and culture had previously been unknown to modern scholars. Those scholars named the newly discovered ancient culture the Cucuteni culture, after the name of the village in which artifacts of that culture had first been discovered.
In Cucuteni village there is an archeological museum displaying artifacts of the Cucuteni culture, as well as a church built in the 15th century during the rule of
File:CucuteniSurroundings.JPG, Archaeological Reserve of Cucuteni surroundings
File:CucuteniDacianTombexterior.JPG, Dacian Tumular Tomb
File:CucuteniRoyalTumularDacianTomb.JPG,
File:CucuteniDacianTumularTomb.JPG, Dacian Tumular Tomb
File:MuzeuldinCucuteniVasCreamicPictat.JPG, Cucuteni Pottery
Iași County
Iași County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași. It is the most populous county in Romania, after the Municipality of Bucharest (which has the same administrative level as that of a c ...
, Western Moldavia
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, Romania
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, with a population of 1,446 as of 2002. The commune is composed of four villages: Băiceni, Bărbătești, Cucuteni, and Săcărești.
It is located from the city of Iași
Iași ( , , ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the second largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, it has traditionally ...
and from the town of Târgu Frumos
Târgu Frumos (also spelled ''Tîrgu Frumos'', sometimes ''Târgul / Tîrgul Frumos''), ) is a town in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. Eleven villages were administered by the town until 2004, when they were split off to form Balș, Cost ...
. Neighbouring villages and communes are Todirești (to the north), Târgu Frumos and Cotnari (to the east) and Ruginoasa (to the west). The name of Cucuteni village is derived from the Romanian
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*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
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word "cucută", meaning '' hemlock''.
The Cucuteni culture artifacts
A trove of ancient artifacts was discovered in Cucuteni in 1884. It was determined that these artifacts had been produced by an ancient people whose existence and culture had previously been unknown to modern scholars. Those scholars named the newly discovered ancient culture the Cucuteni culture, after the name of the village in which artifacts of that culture had first been discovered.
In Cucuteni village there is an archeological museum displaying artifacts of the Cucuteni culture, as well as a church built in the 15th century during the rule of Stephen III of Moldavia
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; ...
. The Archaeological Reserve of Cucuteni is under the direct coordination of Moldavia's History Museum.
Natives
* Ioan Arbore *Ghiță Moscu
Ghiță Moscu (born Gelbert or Gelber Moscovici, also known as Alexandru Bădulescu, russian: Александр Саимович Бадулеску; 1889 – November 4, 1937) was a Romanian socialist and communist activist, one of the early leade ...
* Ilie Moscovici
* Petru Poni
Gallery
Legend
Cucuteni is the legendary place of birth of the legendary mathematicianNicolas Bourbaki
Nicolas Bourbaki () is the collective pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, predominantly French alumni of the École normale supérieure - PSL (ENS). Founded in 1934–1935, the Bourbaki group originally intended to prepare a new textbook i ...
.
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