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
Olt or OLT may refer to:
People:
* Károly Olt (1904–1985), Hungarian politician
* Mike Olt (born 1988), American baseball player
Places:
* Olt County, a county (județ) of Romania
* Olt (river), a river in Romania
** Olt Defile, a defile that ...
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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 Ocnița
Roman times
Romans built the
Buridava castra at
Stolniceni (7 km from
Ocnița
Ocnița (; russian: Óкница) is a town and the administrative center of Ocnița District, Moldova
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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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See also
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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 castra, fort in the Roman province of Dacia.
Gallery
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See also
* Buridava
* List of castra in Romania
* Li ...
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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 Dacian and Thracian, but some were Celtic, Greek, Roman, Paeonian, or Persian.
A number of cities in Dacia and ...
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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 r ...
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Roman Dacia
Roman Dacia ( ; also known as Dacia Traiana, ; or Dacia Felix, 'Fertile/Happy Dacia') 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 ...
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Further reading
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Buridava
External links
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Dacian fortresses in Vâlcea County
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Ruins in Romania
History of Oltenia