Buridava

Buridava
Top terrace
Location within Romania
Alternative name(s)	Burridava, Burridaua
Hegemonic tribe(s)	Buri
Nearby water(s)	Aluta
Location
Coordinates	45.079352°N 24.287605°E / 45.079352; 24.287605
Altitude	350 m
Town	Stolniceni
County	Vâlcea
Country	Romania
Reference
RO-LMI	VL-I-s-B-09556
RO-RAN	168194.02
Site notes
Recognition	National Historical Monument
Condition	Ruined
Archaeologists	Dumitru Berciu
Exhibitions	Vâlcea County Museum

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

Tabula Peutingeriana

Burridaua

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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See also

• Dacian davae
• List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
• Dacia
• Roman Dacia

References

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 partially in English). Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2010. 
• Pop, Ion Aurel; Bolovan, Ioan; Andea, Susana (2006). History of Romania : compendium. Cluj-Napoca : Romanian Cultural Institute. ISBN 978-973-7784-12-4. 
• Pârvan, Vasile (1928). Dacia. Cambridge University Press. 
• Tomaschek, W (2007). Les restes de la langue dace. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-41252-0. 

Further reading

• Olteanu, Sorin. "Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - Toponyms Section". Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum (in Romanian and partially in English). Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2010. 
• Buridava

External links

• Buridava