Gelonus (Ancient Greek: Γελωνός) was, according to Herodotus, the capital of the Gelonians. In his account of Scythia (Inquiries book 4), Herodotus writes...
09278; 34.64611 ) is one hypothesized location for Gelonus. The Budini and Gelonians both lived in Gelonus, although each population lived in separate sections...
belonged to the Slavic family. During the 6th century BC, the city of Gelonus was built in the country of the Budini, where the Gelonians set up an important...
classical civilization to the trade emporiums in Tanais and Phanagoria. Gelonus was described by Herodotus as a huge (Europe's biggest) earth- and wood-fortified...
army due to their mobile lifestyle and lack of any settlement (except Gelonus), while the Persians suffered losses due to the Scythians' scorched earth...
Heracles accepted the request, and became by her the father of Agathyrsus, Gelonus, and Scythes. The last of them became king of the Scythians, according...
the Snake-Legged Goddess banished her two eldest sons, Agathyrsus and Gelonus, from her country and instead crowned as king her youngest son, Scythes...
archaeologist Boris Shramko and others identifying it as the Scythian capital Gelonus. It is strategically situated on the exact boundary between the steppe...
kilometres from each other. The site of Bilsk corresponded to the city of Gelonus, which was an important trade and industrial centre which had been built...
Publishing, Moscow, 1913 Bilsk hillfort [de], Ukraine. A suggested site of Gelonus eighth-third c BC Gelonians Mordvins Semenkovich family archive Semenkovich...
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