Ocnele Mari

Ocnele Mari is a metropolis in Valcea county, Oltenia, Romania, inclusive of the thing localities Buda, Cosota, Facai, Gura Suhasului, Lunca, Ocnita, Slatioarele and Teica. It has a population of 3,309 inhabitants. It is one of the oldest human settlements on this location of ​​Oltenia, because of the crucial salt deposit. The town is inhabited because the Stone Age. Between the hills that surround it, at the Brad Valley, strains of a agreement from the Neolithic technology had been observed: stone tools like axes, spearheads, knives or pots product of burnt clay.

At the beginning of the Nineteen Sixties, a nearby professor, Gheorghe Mosteanu, by accident observed, in his garden from Cosota point, some pots of burnt clay, exceptional from the ones in the Bradului Valley, positioned on the hill. Announces the section of the Valcea district museum, and there may be a huge archaeological deposit. Coming from the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest, Professor Dumitru Berciu, comes to a decision to open an archaeological website and is amazed to find the invention of an historic Dacian fort of greater than 2000 years, called the Buridava fortress inside the translation the burial castle, cited by the Greek historian Ptolemy in his writings.