The
First Known King of The Greatest Point
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The inscription of king Thiamarcus and its association with the Latin ones (in which is mentioned the toponymy "Buridava", the cityand "Bur" - the Dacians, name in the respective region) raises another problem. We think that Thiamarcus wasn't just the chief of a tribal union, but the leader (king ) of a social-political group, which had the characteristics of a state, because at that time the Geto-Dacian society had overcomed the tribal union stage. He was the king of a micro-state, one of the four or five "parts" mentioned by the Greek historian and geographist Strabon, who was partially contemporary with Burebista. Ptolemey mentions the "Buridavensis", refering of course to the Dacians that lived in Buridava or, more properly, to those whose political center was there.
English version by Nora Parvu.
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