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The Gáva-Holigrady culture was a late
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File:Lapus Group pottery 1.jpg, Lăpuş Group pottery, 13th century BC.
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The Gáva-Holigrady culture was a late Bronze Age
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culture of Eastern Slovakia
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, Western Ukraine (Zakarpats'ka Oblast
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and Dnister river basin), Northwestern Romania
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, Moldova, and Northeastern Hungary
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It is considered a subtype of the Urnfield culture.
Gava-Holigrady culture is named after an archaeological settlement Gava in Northeastern Hungary and an archaeological site Holigrady (Голігради) in Ukrainian Ternopil Oblast
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In Slovakia, the culture originated in the early 12th century BC.
Gáva people lived in settlements and castles that they built in the Slovakian and Transylvania
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n uplands.
Gava-Holigrad people are considered to be of Thracian ethnicity.
Lăpuş Group
The Lăpuş Group is considered to be a Romanian counterpart of the Gáva-Holigrady culture.References
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