Argedava
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Coordinates | 44°18′46″N 25°57′53″E / 44.3127°N 25.9648°E |
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Argedava (Argedauon, Sargedava, Sargedauon, Zargedava, Zargedauon,
.Decree of Dionysopolis
This decree was written by the citizens of Dionysopolis to Akornion, who traveled far away in a diplomatic mission to meet somebody's father in Argedauon.[2]
The inscription also refers to the Dacian king
This leads to the assumption that the mentioned Argedava was Burebista's capital of the Dacian kingdom. This source unfortunately doesn't mention the location of Argedava and historians opinions are split in two groups.
One school of thought, led by historians
Others, led by historian
It is possible that the two different davae are
The marble inscription is damaged in many areas, including right before the word Argedauon, and it is possible the original word could have been Sargedauon (
The decree, a fragmentary marble inscription, is located in the
Literary reference
- Mihai Eminescu made a reference to Sarmiszegetuza in the "Third Letter Poem" to the hills of Argedava when he described the Battle at the Rovine from 17 May 1395.
See also
Notes
- ^ Mihailov 1970.
- ^ Crișan 1978, p. 61.
- ^ Daicoviciu 1972, p. 127.
- ^ Oltean 2007, p. 47.
Sources
- Crișan, Ion Horațiu (1978). Burebista and His Time. Volume 20 of Bibliotheca historica Romaniae: Monographies. Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România.
- Daicoviciu, Hadrian (1972). "Dacii". Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedica Româna.
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(help) - Mihailov, Georgi (1970). "Inscriptiones graecae in Bulgaria repertae" (in Latin and Greek). 1 (2nd ed.). Sofia: In aedibus typographicis Academiae Litterarum Bulgaricae.
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(help) - ISBN 978-0-415-41252-0.
- Olteanu, Sorin. "Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum – Toponyms Section". Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum (in Romanian and English). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
External links
- A fost Argedava (Popesti) resedinta statului geto-dac condus de Burebista?[permanent dead link] – Article in Informatia de Giurgiu (Romanian)
- Searchable Greek Inscriptions at The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) – Argedava segment from Decree of Dionysopolis reviewed in Inscriptiones graecae in Bulgaria repertae by Georgi Mihailov
- Argedava in Enciclopedia Dacica (Romanian)
- Ptolemy's Geography at LacusCurtius – Book III, Chapter 8 Location of Dacia (from the Ninth Map of Europe) (English translation, incomplete)
- Sorin Olteanu's Project: Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum – Toponyms Section