“Terra Incognita”: Bilskoye settlement, part 1

Sumy Television. The August 4, 2006 issue of the program “Terra Incognita” is dedicated to the history of the Bilsk settlement (part one).

On the video: Kyiv temples; Sumy, city architecture; Chernihiv, the Transfiguration Cathedral; Rivne, the Holy Resurrection Cathedral; “City of Scythians — Gelon”: Bilsk settlement, hills, landscape of the monument, different angles, the presenter tells the history of the city; Scythian mounds, villages around the monument; photos of archaeological monuments of the Scythian period, artifacts (among them — the sword Akinak); Historical and Cultural Reserve “Bilsk”, maps, history of research; Vorskla River, Sukha Hrun; photos of archaeological excavations of different years; village, well, apiary, examples of dugouts; drawings of dwellings of the Scythian period; Scythian pantheon: images of gods; “Scythian superpower”: city square, research of an ancient metropolis, an archaeologist photographs hills; historical reconstruction of the Mongol invasion; Scythian gold, photos of jewelry from museum collections.

Comments: Associate Professor of the Volodymyr Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University Petro Gavrish; Director of the Historical and Cultural Reserve “Bilsk” Viktor Pryymak.

The following authors worked on the publication: Tetyana Holub, Oleksandr Novozhon, Olena Borysenko, Oleksandr Dyadchenko, Volodymyr Kolesnyk, Olga Ivanova.

Reference: Bilsk settlement is a large Scythian fortified settlement located on the border of Poltava and Sumy regions, between the Vorskla and Sukhaya Hrunya rivers. This is one of the largest Scythian settlements in Eastern Europe, with an area of ​​4,400 hectares. The settlement was an important political and cultural center of the Scythian period, existing from the end of the 8th to the beginning of the 3rd centuries BC. Its territory was inhabited by a diverse population, including Budins, Gelons, Neurs, and other tribes. The Bielsko settlement is often identified with the city of Gelon, as mentioned by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.