The Baridustae were an Illyrian

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

that lived in Dalmatia, around Bariduum, a settlement located between

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and

Servitium Serbinum, also known as Servitium or Servicium, was an ancient Roman Empire, Roman city in the province of Pannonia. It was situated in the location of present-day Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gradiška in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. S ...

, more precisely 30 miles north of Salona, which has been identified with the site area of

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, in present-day

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. They are attested only in epigraphic material. The Baridustae are documented, along with other Illyrian tribes like the

Pirustae This is a list of ancient tribes in the ancient territory of Illyria ( grc-gre, Ἰλλυρία; la, Illyria). The name ''Illyrians'' seems to be the name of a single Illyrian tribe that was the first to come into contact with the ancient Greeks ...

and Sardiatae, in the epigraphic material of

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in Roman Dacia, a mining town where several Illyrian peoples moved by the time of Roman emperor

Trajan Trajan ( ; la, Caesar Nerva Traianus; 18 September 539/11 August 117) was Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Officially declared ''optimus princeps'' ("best ruler") by the senate, Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presi ...

. A great number of inscriptions were recently found reporting the tribal name of the Baridustae, which were produced after they moved to the new town in Dacia from their ancient tribal areas in Dalmatia. A ''k(astellum) Baridust(arum)'' is also attested in Alburnus Maior; its inhabitants formed a ''

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''. The existence of ''collegia'' of the Baridustae and of the Sardiatae certainly suggests a location of those communities within or near the mining district..

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