There is an opinion that the settlement was a kind of outpost on the border between the Slovenian state grouping and the nomadic Steppe. Its time frame is from the X to the XIV centuries. The scale of the memorial, its extremely important strategic location, gives good reasons to consider the Protovche to be one of the pledges, from which the military-administrative center Zaporizʹka Sich was later crystallized. Protovche interesting not only from the historical side, it is an unique memorial of nature, a zone of absolute reserve. A complex of more than 20 lakes, channels and bays, islets – these are the remains of the once vast massif of the «Great Meadow of Zaporizhzhia.» There are more than 28 species of animals, 47 fish and 226 birds.
Zaporozhye region, In the southern part of the Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia
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