Buridava


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

Ancient sources

Ptolemy's Geographia

Tabula Peutingeriana

Etymology

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

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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