Cucuteni is a commune in Iaşi County

Iasi County

Iași is a county of Romania, in Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași.-Demographics:As of 1 July 2007, Iași County had a population of 825,100, making it the second most populous county in Romania after Bucharest, with a population density of 150/km².*Romanians - 98.1%*Roma -...

, Romania

Romania

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, with a population of 1,446 as of 2002. It is located 45 km from the city of Iaşi

Iasi

Iași is the second most populous city and a municipality in Romania. Located in the historical Moldavia region, Iași has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life...

 and 10 km from the town of Târgu Frumos

Târgu Frumos

Târgu Frumos is a town in Iaşi County, Moldavia, Romania. it has a population of 13,619...

. Neighbouring villages and communes are Todireşti

Todiresti

Todireşti may refer to several places:* Todireşti, Iaşi, a commune in Iaşi County, Romania* Todireşti, Suceava, a commune in Suceava County, Romania* Todireşti, Vaslui, a commune in Vaslui County, Romania...

 (to the north), Târgu Frumos and Cotnari

Cotnari

Cotnari is a village and the center of the eponymous commune in Iaşi County, Romania, in the informal region of Moldova. It is located north-west of Iaşi and south of Hârlău, in a major wine-producing region of Romania, and is famous for the wine variety known as Grasă de Cotnari...

 (to the east) and Ruginoasa

Ruginoasa

Ruginoasa may refer to several places in Romania:* Ruginoasa, a commune in Iaşi County* Ruginoasa, a commune in Neamţ County* Ruginoasa, a village in Valea Iaşului Commune, Argeş County* Ruginoasa, a village in Brăeşti Commune, Buzău County...

 (to the west). The name of the village is derived from Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 word "cucută", meaning hemlock

Conium

Conium is a genus of two species of highly poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to Europe and the Mediterranean region as Conium maculatum, and to southern Africa as Conium chaerophylloides....

. The commune is composed of four villages: Băiceni, Bărbăteşti, Cucuteni and Săcăreşti.

This was the place where in 1884 were found some ancient artifacts and the culture that produced them took the name of the village, Cucuteni culture

Cucuteni culture

The Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, also known as Cucuteni culture , Trypillian culture or Tripolye culture , is a late Neolithic archaeological culture which flourished between ca...

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An archeological museum displaying artifacts of the Cucuteni culture and a 15th century church built during the rule of Stephen III of Moldavia

Stephen III of Moldavia

Stephen III of Moldavia was Prince of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504 and the most prominent representative of the House of Mușat.During his reign, he strengthened Moldavia and maintained its independence against the ambitions of Hungary, Poland, and the...

are located in Cucuteni village.