Bilsk, Kotelva Raion

Bilsk (Ukrainian: Більськ) is a village in Kotelva Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.

This article is about a village in Poltava Oblast. For another village in Rivne Oblast, see Bilsk, Rokytne Raion.
Location of Bilsk village in Ukraine

Bilsk (Belsk) is better known for its archaeological landmark Bilske Horodyshche (Bilsk Hill Fort), propounded by some Ukrainian archaeologists as the location of Gelonus, the principal city of the tribe of the Budini.[1]

References
  1. Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009). Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton University Press. p. 67. ISBN 1400829941.


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