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Buridava (Burridava) was a Dacian town.[1] situated in Dacia, later Dacia Apulensis, now Romania, on the banks of the river Aluta now Olt[2]

Ancient sources

Ptolemy's Geographia

Tabula Peutingeriana

Burridaua

Etimology

The name is Geto-Thracian[2]

History

Dacian town

Buridava was the chief trading center of the tribe of the Buri [2] It was located at Ocnita [3]

Roman times

Romans built the Buridava castra at Stolniceni (7 km from Ocnita) [4]


Archaeology

A fragment of a vase carrying the inscription BUR, indicates the name of the Dacian tribe Buridavensi [5] In addition to the inscriptions in Latin capitals and cursives uncovered in 1973 and 1978, two inscriptions in Greek were discovered in the same years. They both date from the time of Augustus [3]


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See also

Notes

  1. ^ Olteanu, Toponyms. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFOlteanu (help)
  2. ^ a b c Grant & 1986 125.
  3. ^ a b MacKenzie, 1986 & 67. Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTEMacKenzie198667" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ Berciu 1981.
  5. ^ MacKenzie 1986, p. 66.

References

Ancient

Modern

  • Austin, N. J. E.; Rankov, N. B. (1998). Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-18301-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Berciu, Dumitru (1981). Buridava dacică, Volume 1. Academiei RS Romania. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Grant, Michael (1986). A Guide to the Ancient World: A Dictionary of Classical Place Names. H. W. Wilson. ISBN 978-0-8242-0742-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • MacKenzie, Andrew (1986). Archaeology in Romania: The Mystery of the Roman occupation. Hale. ISBN 978-0-7090-2724-9. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007). Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-41252-0. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Olteanu, Sorin. "Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - Toponyms Section". Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum (in Romanian and partially in English). Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Pop, Ion Aurel; Bolovan, Ioan; Andea, Susana (2006). History of Romania : compendium. Cluj-Napoca : Romanian Cultural Institute. ISBN 978-973-7784-12-4. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Pârvan, Vasile (1928). Dacia. Cambridge University Press. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Tomaschek, W (2007). Les restes de la langue dace. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-41252-0. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Further reading

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