Buridava (''Burridava'') was a
Dacia
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n town situated in Dacia, later Dacia Apulensis, now
Romania
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, 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
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Burs (Dacia)
The Burs (Latin ''Buri'', ''Buredeense'' and ''Buridavenses''; Greek Βοῦροι) were a Dacian tribe living in Dacia in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D., with their capital city at Buridava.
Name
According to Wilhelm Tomaschek, the root ''bur ...
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Buridava (castra)
Castra Buridava was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia, part of the frontier system of the Limes Alutanus, and near the Dacian and Roman town of Buridava.
The Romans presence from the end of the Trajan's First Dacian War (102) has been pro ...
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Dacian davae
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List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
This is a list of ancient cities, towns, villages, and fortresses in and around Thrace and Dacia. A number of these settlements were Thracian and Dacians, Dacian, but some were Celtic, Ancient Greece, Greek, Roman Empire, Roman, Paeonian, or Per ...
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Dacia
Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ro ...
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Roman Dacia
Roman Dacia ( ; also known as ; or Dacia Felix, ) was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271–275 AD. Its territory consisted of what are now the regions of Oltenia, Transylvania and Banat (today all in Romania, except the last regi ...
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Further reading
Buridava
External links
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Dacian towns
Dacian fortresses in Vâlcea County
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