Buridava
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Alternative name | Burridava, Burridaua |
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Location | Stolniceni, Vâlcea, Romania |
Coordinates | 45°04′46″N 24°17′15″E / 45.079352°N 24.287605°ECoordinates: 45°04′46″N 24°17′15″E / 45.079352°N 24.287605°E |
Altitude | 350 m (1,148 ft) |
History | |
Cultures | Buri |
Site notes | |
Archaeologists | |
Condition | Ruined |
Reference no. | VL-I-s-B-09556 [1] |
Buridava (Burridava) was a Dacian town.[2] situated in Dacia, later Dacia Apulensis, now Romania, on the banks of the river Aluta, now Olt.[3]
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Ptolemy's Geographia
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Tabula Peutingeriana
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Etymology
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The name is Geto-Thracian[3]
History
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Dacian town
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Buridava was the chief trading center of the tribe of the Buri [3] It was located at Ocnița[4]
Roman times
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Romans built the Buridava castra at Stolniceni (7 km from Ocnița) [5]
Archaeology
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A fragment of a vase carrying the inscription BUR, indicates the name of the Dacian tribe Buridavensi [6] 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 [4]
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See also
- Burs (Dacia)
- Buridava (castra)
- Dacian davae
- List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
- Dacia
- Roman Dacia
Notes
- ^ "National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania, Vâlcea County" (PDF). inmi.ro. Retrieved 18 October 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Olteanu, Toponyms.
- ^ a b c Grant 1986, p. 125.
- ^ a b MacKenzie 1986, p. 67.
- ^ Berciu 1981.
- ^ 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.
- 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 978-0-8242-0742-7.
- MacKenzie, Andrew (1986). Archaeology in Romania: The Mystery of the Roman occupation. Hale. ISBN 978-0-7090-2724-9.
- Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007). Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-41252-0.
- Olteanu, Sorin. "Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - Toponyms Section". Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum (in Romanian and English). Archived from the original on 1 December 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
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