Mihailesti

Mihailesti is a metropolis placed in Giurgiu County, Romania. It administers 3 villages: Draganescu, Novaci and Popesti. The city stands beside the Argeș River, which at this factor is dammed, forming a lake approximately five kilometres long. It turned into created as part of the Danube Bucharest Canal challenge and feeds an hydro-electric plant. Popesti village is the location of an important archeological discovery: a massive Dacian agreement believed by way of a few historians together with Vasile Parvan and professor Radu Vulpe to be the Argedava stated in the Decree of Dionysopolis.

This historic supply links Argedava with the Dacian king Burebista, and it is believed to be his court docket or capital. Burebista became a Thracian king of the Getae and Dacian tribes from 82/sixty one BC to forty five/forty four BC. He turned into the first king who effectively unified the tribes of the Dacian Kingdom, which comprised the area positioned among the Danube, Tisza, and Dniester rivers and current day Romania. In the seventh and 6th centuries BC it have become home to the Thracian peoples, along with the Getae and the Dacians.