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Buridava

Top terrace
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Alternative name	Burridava, Burridaua
Location	Stolniceni, Vâlcea, Romania
Coordinates	45°04′46″N 24°17′15″E / 45.079352°N 24.287605°E / 45.079352; 24.287605
Altitude	350 m (1,148 ft)
History
Cultures	Buri
Site notes
Archaeologists	Dumitru Berciu
Condition	Ruined
Monument istoric
Reference no.	VL-I-s-B-09556

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

Later a Roman fort (Buridava castra) was built there.

Etymology

The name is Geto-Thracian

History

Dacian town

Together with the fortresses of Grădiștea and Tetoiu, it was part of an ingenious defensive system in the southeastern part of the residence of the Dacian kings in Sarmizegetusa.

Buridava was the chief trading center of the tribe of the Buri It was located at Ocnița

Roman times

The Romans built the Buridava castra at Stolniceni (7 km from Ocnița)

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

Gallery

References

1. "National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania, Vâlcea County" (PDF). inmi.ro. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
2. Olteanu, Toponyms.
3. ^ Grant 1986, p. 125.
4. ^ MacKenzie 1986, p. 67.
5. Berciu 1981.
6. MacKenzie 1986, p. 66.

See also

• Burs (Dacia)
• Buridava (castra)
• Dacian davae
• List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
• Dacia
• Roman Dacia

Sources

• 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.

Further reading

• Buridava

External links

• Buridava

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