Buridava was a Dacian town. situated in Dacia, later Dacia Apulensis, now Romania

Romania

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, on the banks of the river Aluta now Olt

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Etimology

The name is Geto-Thracian

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

See also

• Dacian davae
  Dava (Dacian)
  Dava is a Geto-Dacian name for a city, town or fortress. Generally, the name indicated a tribal center or an important settlement, usually fortified...
  
  
• List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
• Dacia
  Dacia
  In ancient geography, especially in Roman sources, Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians or Getae as they were known by the Greeks—the branch of the Thracians north of the Haemus range...
  
  
• Roman Dacia
  Roman Dacia
  The Roman province of Dacia on the Balkans included the modern Romanian regions of Transylvania, Banat and Oltenia, and temporarily Muntenia and southern Moldova, but not the nearby regions of Moesia...
  
  

External links

• Buridava