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The article "Pentapolis" is a verbatim copy of most sections of the "Cyrenaica" article, and provides no new or specific information on the Pentapolis itself. As such, it is redundant. If no objection is noted or significant material added to the Pentapolis page, I'll turn it into a redirect page. Cplakidas 23:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I think that Pentapolis (North Africa) has information about a part of Cyrenaica and these are not included in the article Cyrenaica

Including the information you mentioned is important to explain relationship between Pentapolis (North Africa) and Cyrenaic.

The article Pentapolis (North Africa) is being developed to include information about the history of the Eparchy as part of both the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.

I am in favour of keeping them separate. --Ghaly 19:47, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I have done the redirect to requested--Ghaly 20:22, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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On 20 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Greek submarine Delfin, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Andrew c ^[talk] 22:20, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah very nice, didn't know that was meant. Mallerd 12:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I rather to remove the Turkish-Portuguese War in the board. Doncsecz —Preceding comment was added at 14:53, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There the Battle of Matapan, near the combatants Kingdom of Portugal. And on of the my references one hungarian book: Attila and Balázs Weiszhár: Lexicon of Battles (Csaták lexikona). This enough? Doncsecz —Preceding comment was added at 16:18, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Naturally, I added my comment even though it is quite difficult to even begin discussing with a guy like him who talks to things such as national fighting mentalities etc. which belong in a Nazi-era textbook rather than Wikipedia. Na eheis iremia, den tha kerdiseis tipota an fenete oti eheis mallosei me ton malaka... mono boroume na kanoume revert kai tha ton blokarisoun. AlexiusComnenus 21:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow Cplakidas, I LIKES that map you made of Rome in AD 400! It looks like it's based on the same map I based my East-Hem maps on. How did you get one that was so large? I'd like to get a full world map that zooms in as close as yours does, but haven't had much luck finding one yet. I actually had to piece mine together (and that wasn't easy!).

As for your questions regarding the borders on my maps, I'd be happy to correct them if you could send me source information I can use to correct the borders. Non-wiki source info please; I've already seen too many errors on Wikipedia, and too many editors who have agendas to keep out correct information.

Thanks for your comments though; I look forward to working further with you. Great map of Rome! Thomas Lessman 22:11, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the source maps, Cplakidas. I remember seeing the ones on the geocities site a while back, but the borders were 20 years out of date for the 565 map. Looking at them, I can see my borders are most likely off, but by how much? I actually had used the first map you posted as the source for my borders of Yemen and the Lakhmids in 565, but I can tell I need to re-work them as well. How would you depict the borders of the Arab states in 565 and in 600? Thomas Lessman 20:27, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I can see I was pretty far off on my borders in Nubia/Sudan. I had previously thought the Blemmyes were destroyed before the 400s; I now understand I was way wrong. It looks like they were around until at least 1000 AD, if not longer. I think you're right about the Lakhmids maintaining until at least 602; I thought they fell a few years earlier. I'm trying to figure out how I'll redraw the borders in Arabia. There may be a lot of land under the ambiguous "Arabian Tribes" designation, and I'll be doing a bit more work on the Sassanid/Arab borders tomorrow.

Yikes, just when you think you might have a finished map... lol Thomas Lessman 22:55, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay Cplakidas, I corrected one of the maps (565AD) and uploaded it. Might not be refreshed yet in Wikipedia's site. You can see the updated version on my website, at www.ThomasLessman.com/History/images/East-Hem_565ad.jpg. Please check it out and let me know what you think. If it's correct, I'll start working on the other maps. Thomas Lessman 16:33, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On 2 November, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Troglita, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 18:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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On 4 November, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nea Moni of Chios, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--PFHLai 11:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see this discussion: [1] Argos'Dad 16:12, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Cplakidas. Sorry for my delayed response, I have not been on Wiki that often as of late. I am quite confident it was Troglita, after all he was named dux Mesopotamiae when he was assigned to the Eastern frontier with Belisarius. It would be my pleasure to show you a source. Here it is:
J.A.S. Evans, The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power, Routledge 1996, p. 166.

I actually got this citation from another Wiki article. It happened to be the the John Troglita article itself. Under the first sub-level headline is a title reading "Early Career". And the last sentence of that paragraph (footnoted by the above source) reads:

"...He achieved several small successes against the Persians: he led his army in a successful night attack against the Persian force besieging Theodosiopolis, and then defeated another Persian army besieging Dara, capturing its general, Mihr-Mihroe."

Warmest regards, friend. --Arsenous Commodore 03:43, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, scratch that, my mistake. It appears I have confused the Battle of Dara in 530 involving Belisarius with the one 12 years later in 542 where Persian general Mir-Mihroe is captured during Khosrau I Mesopotamian offensive. I guess that source is discussing the latter battle of Dara. Now I'm not certain which John it was, lol. I guess you are correct, it would be most prudent to switch it back to the simpler "John" for now; until some source/historical certainty is gathered. I'll switch it back. Thanks for the correction, and nice eagle-eye on that one! :) --Arsenous Commodore 03:57, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vale Costantine ;-)

I wanted to thank you a lot for improving the article about Gül Mosque. What do you think about it? Except the language style, of course... :-( Too long, too short, too unbalanced? I am trying to cover all the "minor" Byzantine Churches of Istanbul, and comments are welcome! Thanks again, Kalimera, Alex2006 (talk) 12:37, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]