Gelonus

Gelonos ( gr Γελωνός ) is in Herodotus (4, 108-109 ) called a city in the land of the Scythian Budinoi.

Herodotus describes them as tall and built entirely of wood, their inhabitants. Predominantly as expatriate Greeks, who brought with them their way of life They had been destroyed BC during the Persian king Darius the Skythenfeldzugs in the 6th century ( Herodotus 4, 123). However, it is still controversial whether the applicable nomadic Scythians features larger settlements.

The Kharkov archaeologist Boris Schramko thought that it this to be Gelonos with fortifications that were found in Bilsk ( Poltava oblast ).