Burebista led his transdanubian coalition in a struggle against Roman encroachment, conducting many raids against Roman allies in Moesia and Thrace, penetrating as far as Macedonia and Illyria.

This commemoration led the press to note " similarities " between Burebista and Ceauşescu, and even professional historians such as Ion Horaţiu Crişan used about Burebista words of omage similar to the ones used by party activists about Ceauşescu.

Burebista subjugated the Taurisci and the Anarti ; in the process, he confronted the Celtic tribal alliance led by the Boii.

Burebista ’ s victory over the Celts led not only to the breakup of their tribal alliance, but also to the establishment of Dacian settlements in the southern parts of today's Slovakia.

One school of taught, led by historians Constantin Daicoviciu and Hadrian Daicoviciu, assume the inscription talks about Argidava and place the potential capital of Burebista at Vărădia, Caraş-Severin County, Romania.

In 88-44 BC, king Burebista, the most powerful of the kings of Thrace, according to the historian Acronion, establishes the new capital in the area, at Sarmizegetusa Regia ( located in the Surianu Mountains west of Cugir ).

Around 60 BC they clashed with the rising power of the Dacians under their king Burebista and were defeated.

The presence of Roman forces in the Danube delta was seen as a major threat by all the neighbouring transdanubian peoples: the Peucini Bastarnae, the Sarmatians and, most importantly, by Burebista ( ruled 82-44 BC ), king of the Getae.

Burebista annexed the Greek cities ( 55-48 BC ).

For 44 BC, Roman dictator-for-life Julius Caesar planned to lead a major campaign to crush Burebista and his allies once and for all, but he was assassinated before it could start.

Julius Caesar intended to start a campaign against the Dacians, due to the support that Burebista gave to Pompey, but was assassinated in 44 BC.

* Burebista, King of Dacia ( ruled 82 BC – 44 BC )

The first polity that is believed to have included the whole of Bessarabia was the Dacian polity of Burebista in the 1st century BC.

Parts of Moesia belonged to the polity of Burebista, a Getae king who established his rule over a large part of the Northern Balkans between 82 BC and 44 BC.

Following Strabo, king Burebista ( 82 BC-44 BC ) recruited this man, who had been in Egypt, to render his people more docile.

In 7 BC when the Dacian kingdom built up by Burebista began to collapse, the Romans took advantage and encouraged the Iazyges to settle in the Pannonian plain, between the Danube and the Tisza ( Tisa ) Rivers.

70 BC to 44 BC, the region was incorporated in the Dacian polity of Burebista.

Burebista () was a king of the Getae and Dacians, who unified for the first time their tribes and ruled them between 82 BC and 44 BC.

After 55 BC and probably before 48 BC, Burebista conquered the Black Sea shore, subjugating the Greek fortresses from Olbia to Apollonia, as well as the Danubian Plain all the way to the Balkans.

In 48 BC, Burebista sided with Pompey during his struggle against Julius Caesar in the Roman civil war, sending Akornion as an ambassador and a military adviser.

After Caesar emerged as victor, he planned on sending legions to punish Burebista, but he was assassinated in the Senate before he could do so, on March 15, 44 BC.

The region was part of Dacian kingdom under Burebista in the first century BC, but the balance of power in the area partially changed during the campaigns of Augustus.

In the first century BC, it was part of the Dacian Kingdom under Burebista.

After the bloody defeat from Dacian forces under the leadership of king Burebista ( shortly after the middle of 1st century BC ) rest of the Celts retreated to the site of Devín, creating a smaller, more easily protectable hill-fort settlement.

This process may have been partly due to the career of the Getan king Burebista ( ruled ca 80 – 44 BC ), who appears to have coalesced several Getic and Dacian tribes under his leadership.

Around 50 BC, the mainly Celtic tribes living on the territory were confronted by Burebista, king of the Dacians ( 82-44 BC ), who began suddenly to expand his domain centered in Transylvania.

Burebista had unified the Getan tribes into a single kingdom, for which the Greek cities were vital trade outlets.

The Thracians in classical times were broken up into a large number of groups and tribes, though a number of powerful Thracian states were organized, such as the Odrysian kingdom of Thrace and the Dacian kingdom of Burebista.

Burebista was the first to create a union of tribes of both Dacians and the Getae.

For instance, Burebista, a great conqueror, was seen as merely a " unifier " of the Dacian tribes.

According to Strabo, Burebista coalesced the Geto-Dacian tribes under his leadership and conducted military operations as far as Pannonia and Thracia.

The sources do not indicate clearly whether Burebista was the original unifier of the Dacian tribes, or whether his efforts at unification built upon the work of his predecessors.

There are only three ancient sources on Burebista: Strabo: Geographica 7. 3. 5, 7. 3. 11 and 16. 2. 39 ( who spells his name Byrebistas and Boirebistas ); Jordanes: Getica 67 ( spells his name Buruista ); and a marble inscription found in Balchik, Bulgaria ( now found at the National Museum in Sofia ) which represents a decree by the citizens of Dionysopolis about Akornion.

Strabo wrote that Burebista was able to obtain the complete obedience of his tribe with the help of Decaeneus, a wizard and a diviner who learnt his craft in Egypt.

The hypothesis that Dacian was widely spoken to the north-west of Dacia is primarily based on the career of Dacian king Burebista, who ruled approximately between 80 – 44 BC.

Since the reign of Burebista, widely considered to be the greatest king of Dacia — who ruled between 82 BC and 44 BC — the Dacians had represented a threat for the Roman Empire.

At its peak of power, the empire of Burebista streched from modern Slovakian Carpathians to the Balkans and from the Middle Danube to the Black Sea.

Burebista was a worthy adversary for the Romans, as his army would cross the Danube and plunder the Roman towns as far as in Thrace, Macedonia and Illyria.

This corresponds to the period between 82 – 44 BCE, when the Dacian state reached its widest extent during the reign of King Burebista: in the west it may have extended as far as the middle Danube River valley in present-day Hungary, in the east and north to the Carpathians in present-day Slovakia and in the south to the lower Dniester valley in present-day south-western Ukraine and the western coast of the Black Sea as far as Appollonia.

During Burebista, the society in the region is sometimes considered to have started developing a system of slavery similar to the one in Rome and Ancient Greece, but probably most of the production was still made by free people.

The basis for this is the presumed Dacian occupation of the fortress of Zemplin in Slovakia in the era of Dacian king Burebista – whose campaigns outside Dacia have been dated ca.

The inscription also refers to the Dacian king Burebista, and one interpretation is that Akornion was his chief adviser (, literally " first friend ") in Dionysopolis .. Other sources indicate that Akornion was sent as an ambassador of Burebista to Pompey, to discuss an alliance against Julius Caesar.