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Vinca Culture

Vinca, a suburb of Belgrade, is the reason why Belgrade is considered to be one of the oldest cities on Earth. It is the largest and most comprehensively excavated Neolithic settlement in Europe. It was a metropolis with a flourishing culture, at the place where across the valleys of the Bolecica and Danube Rivers a joyful relief of Balkans meets with the plain of Central Europe. Between 4500 and 3500 BC it was a major prehistoric settlement. Its culture at one moment has left trace and controled the area south to Asia Minor, and north up to the Carphatian Mountains. Thus, Vinca signifyes nowadays the peak of Neolithic farming settled culture in Europe, and offered a basic shape to the upcomming cultures of that part of Old Continent.

• Date: 2002
• Photographer: neron: gallery
• Uploaded: 11th Sep 2005
• Location: Serbia: gallery
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