Pietroasa (etymology +)

[Andrei Stirbu]

> The treasure is currently attributed to the Visigothic leader 
> Athanaric, that, according to Ammianus Marcelinus, organised a 
> resistance against the invadig Huns in a place named by the Goths 
> "CAUCALAND" (i.e. Hauha-land = "Highland") in the mountains called in 
> Latin "Montes Serorum". This place was identified with the curvature 
> zone of the Carpatian Mountais, namely with the Siriu mountains 
> (indentifyable with the "Montes Serorum"), that are not far from 
> Pietroasa, in the same county of Buzau. It is presumed that Athanaric 

You may know that a Dacic tribe was named Caucocensii, placed on the map of Ptolemeus in the area close to exterior of  the Carpathian curbure:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/macedonia_1849.jpg







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