Trzcinica t is a village

Village

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 in the administrative district of Gmina Jasło, within Jasło County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship

Subcarpathian Voivodeship

Podkarpackie Voivodeship , or Subcarpathian Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in extreme-southeastern Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów...

, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Jasło and 54 km (34 mi) south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów

Rzeszów

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Archeological Trzcinica

Trzcinica is the site of one of the most important settlements of the Bronze- and Iron-Age Poland, where around 2100 BCE. the people of the early European Bronze Age

Bronze Age

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 culture created a settlement, and where archeologist found, amongst 30,000 objects, artifacts showing influence of the more advanced Carpathian Basin  Otomani-Fűzesabony culture - clay wheels of toy or ritual carriages, clay animal figurines. Around 1600 BCE. the Otomani peoples actually arrived, crossing the Carpathian Mountains

Carpathian Mountains

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, from present Hungary

Hungary

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, Slovakia

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 and Romania

Romania

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, and took over the existing settlement of Trzcinica, expanding the existing stronghold and fashioning a fortress known to the archaeologists as the Troy

Troy

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 of the North. Amongst the artifacts recovered, some 60,000, there are numerous bronze

Bronze

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 objects linking the gord

Gord

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 of Trzcinica with the Mediterranean Troy. The cumulative area of the Bronze Age Trzcinica fortress was 2 hectares, with powerful earth ramparts. Around 1300 BCE. the stronghold was abandoned. During the early Medieval period, between 770-780 CE, Slavs built a new gord, 3 hectares large, a testimony to the power of a local ruling elite. This gord's power was circumscribed or ceased to exist by the 830s.