Buridava
Buridava (Burridava) was a Dacian town. situated in Dacia, later Dacia Apulensis, now Romania, on the banks of the river Aluta now Olt
Ancient sources
Ptolemy's Geographia
Tabula Peutingeriana
Etimology
The name is Geto-Thracian
History
Dacian town
Buridava was the chief trading center of the tribe of the Buri It was located at Ocnita
Roman times
Romans built the Buridava castra at Stolniceni (7 km from Ocnita)
Archaeology
A fragment of a vase carrying the inscription BUR, indicates the name of the Dacian tribe Buridavensi 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
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References
Ancient
Modern
- 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 978-0415183017.
- Berciu, Dumitru (1981). Buridava dacică, Volume 1. Academiei RS Romania.
- Grant, Michael (1986). A Guide to the Ancient World: A Dictionary of Classical Place Names. H. W. Wilson. ISBN 9780824207427.
- MacKenzie, Andrew (1986). Archaeology in Romania: The Mystery of the Roman occupation. Hale. ISBN 9780709027249.
- Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007). Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415412520.
- Olteanu, Sorin. "Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - Toponyms Section" (in Romanian, partially in English). Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5vSjj8iYr. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- Andea, Susana (2006). History of Romania : compendium. Cluj-Napoca : Romanian Cultural Institute. ISBN 9789737784124.
- Pârvan, Vasile (1928). Dacia. Cambridge University Press.
- Tomaschek, W (2007). Les restes de la langue dace. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415412520.
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