The Milograd culture is an archaeological culture, lasting from about the 7th century BC to the 1st century AD. Geographically, it corresponds to present day southern Belarus

Belarus

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 and northern Ukraine

Ukraine

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, in the area of the confluence of the Dnieper and the Pripyat

Pripyat River

The Pripyat River or Prypiat River is a river in Eastern Europe, approximately long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper....

, north of Kiev

Kiev

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. Their ethnic origins is uncertain.

The town of Milograd, after which the culture is named, is located in the Homiel Province

Homiel Voblast

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 of the Belarus republic.

See also

• Middle Dnieper culture
  Middle Dnieper culture
  The Middle Dnieper culture is an eastern extension of the Corded Ware culture, ca. 3200—2300 BC of northern Ukraine and Belarus. As the name indicates, it was centered on the middle reach of the Dnieper River and is contemporaneous with the latter phase and then a successor to the...
  
  
• Pomeranian culture
  Pomeranian culture
  The Pomeranian culture, also Pomeranian or Pomerelian Face Urn culture was an Iron Age culture in Pomerania, northern Poland. About 650 BC, it evolved from the Lusatian culture, often associated with the Nordic Bronze Age, and subsequently expanded southward...
  
  
• Zarubintsy culture
  Zarubintsy culture
  The Zarubintsy culture was a culture that from the 3rd century BC until 1st century AD flourished in the area north of the Black Sea along the upper and middle Dnieper and Pripyat Rivers, stretching west towards the Southern Bug river. Zarubintsy sites were particularly dense between the Rivers...
  
  
• Podkloszove Burials culture
• Pomorye culture

External links

• Scythians/Sacae by Jona Lendering