Cucuteni on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Cucuteni () is a commune in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania, 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
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. The Archaeological Reserve of Cucuteni is under the direct coordination of Moldavia's History Museum.
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
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. 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 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. The Archaeological Reserve of Cucuteni is under the direct coordination of Moldavia's History Museum.
Natives
* Ioan Arbore * Ghiță Moscu * Ilie Moscovici * Petru PoniGallery
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 (Paris), École normale supérieure - PSL (ENS). Founded in 1934–1935, the Bourbaki group originally in ...
.
References
External links
Archaeological sites in Romania Communes in Iași County Localities in Western Moldavia Archaeological type sites {{Iași-geo-stub