Buridava

Buridava
Location within Romania
Alternative names Burridava
Hegemonic tribe(s) Buri
Nearby water Aluta
Location
Coordinates
Town Ocnele Mari
County Vâlcea County
Country  Romania
Site notes

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]

Contents

Ancient sources

Ptolemy's Geographia

Tabula Peutingeriana

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]

See also

Notes

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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