Cucuteni () is a commune in

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 cou ...

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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

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and from the town of

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. Neighbouring villages and communes are Todirești (to the north), Târgu Frumos and

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(to the east) and Ruginoasa (to the west). The name of Cucuteni village is derived from the

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word "cucută", meaning '' hemlock''.

The Cucuteni culture artifacts

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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 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 Iași and ...

, 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 III, better known as Stephen the Great (; ; died 2 July 1504), was Voivode (or Prince) of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504. He was the son of and co-ruler with Bogdan II, who was murdered in 1451 in a conspiracy organized by his brother an ...

. The Archaeological Reserve of Cucuteni is under the direct coordination of Moldavia's History Museum.

Natives

Ioan Arbore Ioan Arbore (February 23, 1892 – December 25, 1954) was a Romanian major-general during World War II. Arbore was born in Cucuteni, Iași County, a distant descendant of hetman Luca Arbore. He spent his childhood in Sarinasuf, Tulcea County ...

(1892 – 1954), major-general during World War II *

Ghiță Moscu Ghiță Moscu (born Gelbert or Gelber Moscovici, also known as Alexandru Bădulescu, ; 1889 – November 4, 1937) was a Romanian socialist and communist activist, one of the early leaders of the Romanian Communist Party and its permanent delegate t ...

(1889 – 1937), socialist and communist activist *

Ilie Moscovici Ilie B. Moscovici (also known as Tovilie; 28 November 1885 – 1 November 1943) was a Romanian socialist militant and journalist, one of the noted leaders of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR). A socialist since early youth and a party ...

(1885 – 1943), socialist militant and journalist *

Petru Poni Petru Poni (4 January 1841 – 2 April 1925) was a Romanian chemist and mineralogist. Born into a family of ''răzeși'' (free peasants) in Săcărești, Iași County, he attended primary school in Târgu Frumos. In 1852, he enrolled in '' Acade ...

(1841 – 1925), chemist and mineralogist

Gallery

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

Legend

Cucuteni is the legendary place of birth of the legendary mathematician

Nicolas Bourbaki Nicolas Bourbaki () is the collective pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, predominantly French alumni of the École normale supérieure (Paris), École normale supérieure (ENS). Founded in 1934–1935, the Bourbaki group originally intende ...

References

External links

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