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'''Burebista''' ({{lang-grc|Βυρεβίστας, Βοιρεβίστας}}) was the king of the [[Getae]] and [[Dacians|Dacian]] tribes from 82/61{{nbsp}}BC to 45/44{{nbsp}}BC. He was of Scythian origin and the first king who successfully unified the tribes of the [[Dacian kingdom]], which comprised the area located between the [[Danube]], [[Tisza]], and [[Dniester]] rivers, and modern day [[Romania]] and [[Moldova]]. In the 7th and 6th{{nbsp}}centuries BC it became home to the Thracian peoples, including the Getae and the Dacians. From the 4th{{nbsp}}century to the middle of the 2nd{{nbsp}}century BC the Dacian peoples were influenced by [[La Tène culture|La Tène]] Celts who [[Celtic settlement of Eastern Europe|brought new technologies with them into Dacia]]. Sometime in the 2nd{{nbsp}}century BC the Dacians expelled the Celts from their lands. Dacians often warred with neighbouring tribes, but the relative isolation of the Dacian peoples in the [[Carpathian Mountains]] allowed them to survive and even to thrive. By the 1st{{nbsp}}century BC the Dacians had become the dominant power.