Ion Horațiu Crișan

Ion Horaţiu Crişan
Born	1928 (1928) Romania
Died	1 January 1994(1994-01-01) (aged 66) Romania
Citizenship	Romanian
Nationality	Romanian
Fields	History, Archaeology

Ion Horaţiu Crişan (1928–1994) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist. He conducted research in South-Eastern and Central Europe, focusing on Geto-Dacians and Celts.

Archaeological Site Şanţul Mare, Pecica, Romania, 2008

He has been was very involved with the research at the archaeological site called Şanţul Mare (The Big Ditch), 7 km from Pecica, Arad County, Romania. He placed the Dacian settlement Ziridava, mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geographia,^[1]^[2] at this location with a high degree of certainty.^[3] He wrote a book named Ziridava - The digs from "Șanțul Mare" from 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, focused on the archaeological digs performed in 1960s at this ancient city.^[4]

Bibliography

Burebista and His Time, Volume 20 of Bibliotheca historica Romaniae: Monographies, Bucharest, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1978
Ziridava - Săpăturile de la "Șanțul Mare" din anii 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 (Ziridava - The digs from "Șanțul Mare" from 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964), Arad, Comitetul de Cultură și Educație Socialistă al Județului Arad, 1978
Crişan's Bibliography at History Institute Cluj-Napoca

About him

Notes

↑ Ptolemy 140 AD, III 8,4.
↑ Olteanu, Ptolemy's Dacia.
↑ Crișan 1978a, p. 177.
↑ Crișan 1978b.

References

Ancient

Ptolemy, Claudius (ca. 140 AD). Geographia [Geography] (in Ancient Greek). Check date values in: |date= (help) CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)

Modern

Crișan, Ion Horațiu (1978a). Burebista and His Time. Volume 20 of Bibliotheca historica Romaniae: Monographies. Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România.
Crișan, Ion Horațiu (1978b). Ziridava - Săpăturile de la "Șanțul Mare" din anii 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 [Ziridava - The digs from "Șanțul Mare" from 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964]. Arad: Comitetul de Cultură și Educație Socialistă al Județului Arad.
Olteanu, Sorin. "Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - Ptolemy's Dacia". Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum (in Romanian, partially in English). Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011. CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)