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Noticeboard

Hi and welcome. I wonder if you are a Hungarian (judging by your contributions, it seems likely) – in that case, you could watchlist Misplaced Pages:Hungarian Wikipedians' notice board. Feel free to add a note there whenever you need help with something Hungary-related. Thanks a lot for your contributions. Cheers, KissL 11:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Merged Archidiocese of Veszprém into Archdiocese of Veszprém

Hey Borsoka, I've merged two pages you've created since they were duplicate. If you want people to find one page by the name of another you can use redirects, specifically Template:R from misspelling. Anyway, have fun editing Misplaced Pages! -- StevenDH (talk) 23:45, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

For the record: Archdiocese of Veszprém moved to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Veszprém, so I changed the redirect target of Archidiocese of Veszprém. Just in case anybody would be confused or so... -- StevenDH (talk) 04:21, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the excellent articles on the Roman Catholic dioceses in Hungary. I've updated and incorporated them along with others. Thank you very much. Benkenobi18 (talk) 08:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Great Moravia

Hi, regarding this edit . Could you please provide source? You did not provide any. Which primary source do you mean? At least that edit is badly formatted please correct it and add a reliable source for that citation. For example which book did you use? ≈Tulkolahten≈ 12:41, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, the primary source is Emperor Constantin's De Administrando Imperio. If you think that it is not reliable, please delete the first sentence of the section.Borsoka (talk) 16:04, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

History of Slovakia

Please stop inserting inaccurate information and removing sourced information. For sources, see: , .--Svetovid (talk) 10:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

FYI, Svetovid is under editing restrictions and should not have reverted you. He also should not have referred to your edit as "vandalism", and for what it's worth, I apologize about that. Svetovid's account access has been blocked for 24 hours. --Elonka 12:13, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Invitation

Hi Borsoka, we are currently discussing some disputed issues around articles related to Hungarian-Slovak relations. You are welcome to join in, at User talk:Elonka/Hungarian-Slovakian experiment. --Elonka 11:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Ottokár Prohászka

Hi, in your vote in the proposed naming convention poll you commented that it may not work in e.g. the Ottokár Prohászka article. According to the current proposal, his birth town would be rendered as "Nyitra (Nitra)", since he was born before 1918, and I suppose he was Hungarian (was he?). If he wasn't clearly Hungarian, it could be "Nyitra (Nitra)" or "Nitra (Nyitra)".

But, there are several proposed modifications to the proposal, tagged "A", "B", etc., see under "discussion". If you like, you can comment on these modifications. I think I'll rewrite the poll to a vote about the modifications one of these days. Markussep 06:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

His name is clearly not Hungarian, he was born in a city predominantly inhabited by Slovaks, and he became the Bishop of Székesfehérvár. Borsoka (talk) 08:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Is Nicolas Sarkozy hungarian? No, he is French, despite his hungarian name. Was Ottokár Prohászka slovak? No, he was hungarian, a hungarian bishop, a hungarian politician as well, he created the idea of "hungarism" so he was hungarian. And in Nyitra hungarians were in majority at this time. Slovak people think, that everybody is slovak who has slovak or czech name. I'm sorry, but you are not right. Toroko (talk) 11:38, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Pribina

Hi, did you edit this article as an anon with IPs 213.134.24.184 (talk · contribs) and 213.134.29.185 (talk · contribs)?--Svetovid (talk) 13:30, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Borsoka, could you please explain this edit? You removed what appear to be valid sources from the article, but without giving reasoning for it at the talkpage. We've been working hard lately to reduce these kinds of actions. In the future, please be careful that whenever you make a controversial edit, that you discuss it at talk. And be very careful about removing references. If you cannot provide excellent reasons for why those references are inappropriate, they should be put back right away. --Elonka 14:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Elonka. Thank you for your note. My concern is that if we refer to a primary source (i.e., to the "Conversio") in the article, we should clearly distinguish between the facts described in the source (i.e., "a certain Priwina" had a possession in Nitrava and he was expelled by Duke Moimir) and their interpretation (e.g., Pribina was the prince of the Principality of Nitrava, where he had a court). Otherwise, we would mislead all the readers of the article who could think that the cited primary source covers all the facts described in the article. If my concern is valid, I am sure we could find a proper way to distinguish between documented facts and their interpretation. Borsoka (talk) 16:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Did you edit the article History of Slovakia as an anon IP 213.134.24.123 (talk · contribs)?--Svetovid (talk) 00:25, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I did. Sorry I forgot to log in. Borsoka (talk) 03:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Notice of editing restrictions

Notice: Under the terms of Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren, any editor working on topics related to Eastern Europe, broadly defined, may be made subject to an editing restriction at the discretion of any uninvolved administrator. Should the editor make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, he or she may be blocked for up to a week for each violation, and up to a month for each violation after the fifth. This restriction is effective on any editor following notice placed on his or her talk page. This notice is now given to you, and future violations of the provisions of this warning are subject to blocking.

Note: This notice is not effective unless given by an administrator and logged here.

--Elonka 05:58, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Great Moravia

Dear Borsoka, thank you very much for your contributions to Great Moravia. I think we have done a lot of work there and the article seems to be more or less stable now. I am happy that our different sources of information did not cause an edit war, but, instead, lead to fruitful collaboration. I believe insistence on citing reliable academic sources and the efficient (and civil) use of the article's talk page made the trick. I hope other editors writing about the Hungarian and Slovak history will learn from our example. It has been a pleasure to work with you. Tankred (talk) 02:41, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Userpage

Borsoka, would you be willing to create a userpage, at User:Borsoka? I find that it's something that can help increase trust in confrontational situations. Or is there a reason that you would not like to create one? --Elonka 20:07, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Inline citations

The best way to make sure your changes remain in the article is to add inline citations for every sentence. Squash Racket (talk) 04:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

RE:vandalism

Hi Borsoka - I'm sorry about mistaking your edit for vandalism. Please continue with your contributions, Vishnava _talk 07:06, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Re

Hi. Unfortunately I have little time on my hands right now and I'll be quite busy untill the end of August I don't have time to complete a re-organization of the Origins... article. Should you create a subpage to your talk page and start sketching it I may drop from time to time to add stuff. Plinul cel tanar (talk) 01:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

OK. I tried to send you a message, but you do not have an email address. For the time being, I do not have much time, but we could begin the article. Let's try how it can work, I hope that we can agree on the wording. Borsoka (talk) 18:12, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Először is 18 vagyok. 2. MIÓTA VOLT SZLOVÁK NEMES???? A CSÁK NEMZETSÉG ELŐDIG MEGY VISSZA!!!!!!!!4 Mi a faszom hogy slovak nobility??, NINCS NEM LÉTEZETT!!! Nem volt nemességük, egy szarházi irigy pásztor nép a legyenelek, rutének és csehek meg német meg persze magyarok keverékei......én csak az igazságot raktam be. és az tény h a honfoglalók hozták be az a kép bizonyítja MIRŐL BESZÉLSZ???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MagyarTürk (talk • contribs) 14:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Aztán a Cseszneky név is eléggé "szlovák".........attól hogy abban a még nem tót helyen uralkodott pl Csák Máté SEMMI KÖZE A SZLOVÁKOKHOZ!!! KIK ŐK???????? HAMISÍTJÁK ITT A TÖRTÉNELEMET VÉGIG.........

Aztán Mátyás Király és román (félig) MI HE????????, Az ilyen hazugságokkal kellene foglalkoznod NEM PEDIG VELEM, aki kiszed tót soviniszta baromságokat............

Üdvözletem.......

The problem

I understand now what the problem was but don't worry about it I'll fix it. Hobartimus (talk) 21:01, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Üdv. Mi a fenének írod vissza Csákhoz, hogy history of slovakia??? Akkor még alig ovltak szlávok, semmi közük nincs hozzá. Tehet arról az a szerencsétlen Csák, hogy 600 évvel később ellopták a földjét a tetves tótok??????? Magyar Királyság olyan volt, de szlovákia sosem volt, se önálló szlovák nemzeti öntudat, csak 48 tól, az is az osztrákok nymására... —Preceding unsigned comment added by MagyarTürk (talk • contribs) 20:00, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

I will do my best to contribute. Whatever contributions I will make actually concern the early kingdom, the Legend of St. Gerald and so on. Concerning extremists, let's not talk about that. I've had my share when editing protochronism related articles on ro.wiki. Plinul cel tanar (talk) 07:13, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. Maybe we should improve the article on the Gesta before moving to anything else. I also think you should be carefull when making general appreciations of the chronicle. Several aspects of the Gesta are considered quite accurate: the Achtum (Ajtony) episode, for example. The whole story about the descendents of Tuhtum rulling as gyulas in Transylvania, one of which converted to orthodoxy is at least partly confirmed by Byzantine sources and it is descifered in one manner or another even by Hungarian historians. In fact the one part which is completely, firmly and utterly rejected by Hungarian historians is the one concerning the dutchies of Menumorout and Gelou (particularly the latter). In fact, in his Early Transylvania (895-1324) recently translated in Romanian by Imre Paska, Kristo Gyula states that what Anonymus says about the Hungarians themselves can, in general manner, be taken into consideration.

Oh, and yes, one of my ... enthusiast compatriots has been going throug the Korochun article, please take a look. From my point, reverting to the ante-quo article is the best solution. Plinul cel tanar (talk) 07:18, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Library of Congress material

You removed the nice summary of the Library of Congress, but left there material regarding the same topic, but based on weaker and/or less neutral sources. Squash Racket (talk) 17:10, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

OK, fine. You add enough inline citations from reliable sources when writing articles. Please also focus on adding English language references too whenever possible. These are easier to verify for those who don't speak Hungarian. Squash Racket (talk) 07:41, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Romania in the Early Middle Ages

We get edit conflicts if we edit simultaneously. I just got one when I tried a second edit. In such cases we lose the results of each one's tedeous work. Hence I will let you go first and will not edit for several hours. cheers, Dc76\ 10:31, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Rjecina

Hi, I am having a report on Rjecina again, because he is accusing me of socketpupets and falsifies historical articles on Misplaced Pages. I see that you are active on Misplaced Pages and also interested in history. Please, could you leave a comment on my report on what your take is on this issue. I would really appreciate it. See link to report on my talk page. Thanks.--Bizso (talk) 11:28, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hi, Borsoka. I'm asking you to please stop the "obvious vandalism" edit summaries. Read WP:VAN and only use this edit summary when it's valid. See a recent block partly because of that wrong edit summary ("you incorrectly labeled his edits as vandalism"). This is a good faith request, I don't want you to have problems with a random admin who doesn't know anything about you, only judges you based on a recent edit summary.
Suggestion: use "rv. unconstructive edits" or something similar instead. Squash Racket (talk) 06:22, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

About Coloman's mother

Coloman-Current revision as of 16:27, 16 March 2009 by Borsoka: "It is a brand new theory. Yes, his mother's name was probably Sofia, but she was not Croatian."

Brand new theory?? There is no theory here.. His mother's name was Sofia and she was sister of croatian king Dmitar Zvonimir. Does it matter was she Hungarian, Croatian or maybe Jew? That sounds little nationalistic... --Dvatel (talk) 18:46, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

The reason is

Hi Borsoka. The reason is that he was the King of Hungary, he was not the king of Croatia because it was part of Hungary, but i think you knew this. Toroko (talk) 09:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Borsoka. Thanks for the answer. First i have to say, that i have no problem with Slovak or Croatian people, i don't want to argue with anybody, i hate arguing. What you said, i respect, and i always wrote that Croatia had autonomy, led by a ban, and later they had an own parliament. And i alwys wrote "King of Croatia" in the titles. But it was just a title, and the hungarian king was the king of the Kingdom of Hungary, there were no separate kingdoms. I think every problem should be fixed, so this is the reason, why i did what i did. Toroko (talk) 13:56, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

His concerns are partially valid. There is a debate going on among historians over the true nature of Hungary-Croatia relations. See articles Pacta conventa (Croatia) and Croatia in personal union with Hungary and the many academic, English references listed for details. Squash Racket (talk) 14:01, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. I respect their feelings. But i always want to be consequent, and because of that i see and follow those habits, which are here in wikipedia. For example look at the Czech( Bohemian kings). They are mentioned as "King of Bohemia" and rhis is the right mentioning. Bohemia conssited of Bohemia, Moravia, Lusatia and Czech Silesia. So if i should write " King of hungary, king of Croatia, King of Damlmatia, ... then Czechs should write: "king of Bohemia, king of Moravia, etc. But they wrote it absolutely correctly, so they wrote "King of Bohemia". Because the hole was Bohemia, so they did the right thing. This is the same about Hungary. The ruler was only "King of Hungary", the other was just titles, territories within Hungary like in Bohemia. So i took a lot of time to show the correct titles and the correct denomination of the ruler, in order to respect everybody's feelings, follow the wiki habits, and edit well. But thanks for the observation. Toroko (talk) 13:35, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Borsoka. The Hungarian kings were only "King of Hungary". They were no kings of Croatia. Whether you accept it or not. I gave English reliable, sources. Look, probably you are Slovak, so maybe you don't like Hungarians. I said earlier, i have no problem with you, and any other Slovaks. I don't want to argue with you. Even if you hate us, just because we are Hungarians. It was quite underhand that you peeped about me, whithout i knew it. But i don't care about it. I didn't delete any Croatian sources, i deleted only what was not true, so there is no problem. If you hate Hungarians, you can do, if you hate me, just do it, but he was only, the King of Hungary, there is no question about it, only in Croatia, and only in the mind of some Croatian, who can't bear what happened earlier, lots of hunderds of years ago. Nobody can change the history, because it has already happened. It is very ugly not to bear it and try to do something against it. This is my last sentence. Toroko (talk) 17:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Award!

You are hereby awarded this Ukrainian National Award "For Merit" because you continue to write new articles on Ukrainian topics - such as the Rurik dynasty - and because you actively participate in the Misplaced Pages community. — Mariah-Yulia (talk) 09:16, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Literary sources for the origin of the Romanians

Hey. Just to let you know I put this good article nominee on hold; there's just a few things that need fixing. Should be a GA upon completion of these. Wizardman 02:43, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Szia!

Remélem beszéled a magyar nyelvet, de ha nem akkor természetesen lefordítom neked angolra a következőket.

Szóval csak annyi lenne, hogy már egy ideje szemmel tartom a magyar vonatkozású szerkesztéseidet (köztük a keleti szomszédunk eredetével foglalkozót, ugye érted :) és pusztán gratulálni szeretnék kitartó és igényes munkáidhoz. Ez utóbbi is nagyszerű! Ha esetleg szükséged lenne segítségre ne habozz, írj bátran. Üdv,--B@xter 16:20, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

-- Ευπάτωρ 18:37, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

RE

Hi

Hi there. I have noted you have made many large expansions to articles related to the Origin of Romanians. First I would like to say I appreciate your dedication to add more information to WP. Second, I would like to make two observations related to many of your edits. You removed most interpretations that fit Anonymous' Gesta. My first observation is: 1) not everything that fits with Gesta should be a priori assumed to come from Gesta. You seem to make such conclusions very often. 2) While Gesta's interpretation is just a view, it is a legitimate view, and IMHO should not be simply removed, but properly attributed instead. Roesler's theory is also just a view, but is kept as a view, not removed every time. Otherwise texts tend to simply say "my view is correct, other views are wrong." Undoubtedly, some interpretations are more accepted by historians than others (Origine of Romanians from Romanized Dacians over Roesler's Theory, Gesta's incorrectness over Gesta's correctness), but deleting concurrent interpretations leads nowhere constructive. Thank you very much if you could, please, consider adjusted the edits you made/make in this sense. Dc76\ 12:10, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Dear Dc76! I received your email, and thank you for it. But, unfortunatelly, it is not clear for me. Would you, please, specify what are my edits you referred to. Sorry, I cannot remember that I made any edits in connection with the article Gesta Ungarorum, but I may be wrong. Or I misunderstood your email. Regards Borsoka (talk) 19:12, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Roman Dacia

Thank you for you response. I wanted to provide some materials that would help to clarify. I agree with your point of view Blurall (talk) 22:59, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Hungary-related articles

I just wish you would be similarly interested in improving History of Hungary articles. Some of them are begging for a rewrite/proper references. Happy New Year in case I'm not late with that. Squash Racket (talk) 13:46, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

• Thank you for your message. I have been collecting books on the history of Hungary written in English; so sooner or later, I will continue to edit those articles as well. For the time being, sincerely, I am more interested in editing articles in connection with the history of the Rus' principalities, Cilician Armenia and Romania - and I managed to buy some really good books on these topics. Happy New Year for you and for yours, as well. Borsoka (talk) 14:05, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

your reverts on Literary sources for the origin of the Romanians article

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Literary sources for the origin of the Romanians. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Please understand that texts that do not document the Origin of the Romanians do not belong to the article. Please understand that the article has to comply with Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view. I will report you on Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring Criztu (talk) 17:13, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

• Dear Criztu, thank you for your note on my Talk page. I agree with you that any of the solutions you suggest in order to avoid edit warring is acceptable. I think if both of us had used reliable sources without faking their content, this situation would not have developed so far. Please note that the three revert rule does not apply to obvious vandalism. And pretending that an editor uses reliable sources but he/she falsifies its content is pure vandalism. Borsoka (talk) 17:26, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

A "harc" :)

Szia!

Látom Te is belenyúltál rendesen... Én ezt már végigjátszottam vele Románia vitalapján, (érdemes lenne elolvasnod) amikor egy másik felhasználóval egyszerűen kitörölt jó pár angol forrással megjelölt részt, és semmi esetre se akarta felfogni a lényeget (wiki szab.: POV, OR, RS, PRIMARY). Az adminok + leszarják az egészet (én is írtam nekik).--B@xter 10:48, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Notification

You might be interested in this: Misplaced Pages:Editor assistance/Requests#assistance required for the Literary sources for the origin of the Romanians--B@xter 12:39, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Stibor of Stiboricz

Greetings,

I saw Your contribution on Stibor of Stiboricz and was wondering if You have time to help me in this subject. Im writing the article about tthe Clan of Ostoja where Stibor of Stiboricz and his family is granted quite a lot of space. I also have some more information about Stibor and Im interested to find out what is in slovakian and hungarian sources. Polish sources, except Sroka are quite poor and I cant read slovakian or hungarian. You might be able to check some info in the books?

Also, I would like to improve the article on Stibor of Stiboricz and I wonder if we could do that together! Because You started the article, I find myself obligated to tell You about my intensions but I also would be really happy to work with You in this! :) I think that we could improve this great article to be really outstanding one!

I saw that the picture in the article was gone because of copyright problems, I add one of Beckov in teh article. Hope You dont mind!

I look forward to receive You answer on this matter!

Best regards,

Camdan (talk) 15:42, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Magyar Katolikus Lexikon Fakirbakir (talk) 12:56, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Question

Hello

Taking into consideration your very good knowledge of Romanian-Hungarian relations during the Middle Ages, I would ask you to express your opinion regarding Janos Hunyadi's ethnic origin and about the way the problem is presented in the wikipedia article. Thanks in advance (79.117.193.149 (talk) 11:01, 21 July 2010 (UTC))

Thanks a lot for your edits at John Hunyadi, I want to ask you only one thing: what do you think about the following paragraph:

"The Hunyadi family are a Hungarian noble family — according to most sources — of Romanian origin. There are also alternative researches suggesting Cuman or Slavic descendance. According to H. Munro Chadwick John Hunyadi was presumably ethnic Hungarian, Lonnie Johnson thinks he was a member of the lesser Hungarian nobility of Transylvania. Other researchers affirm that the overwhelming evidence supports the view that he indeed was not Magyar. According to Hugh Seton-Watson "the ethnical origin of Hunyadi may be left to the chauvinist historians of Budapest and Bucharest to fight out between them, but the historical fact is that both Hunyadi and his son considered themselves Hungarians."

Others simply refer to the obscurity surrounding the ethnic origins."

I think that there is paid too much attention on some theories that are only Fringe Theories.(79.117.151.26 (talk) 14:16, 21 July 2010 (UTC))

I appreciate your work at John Hunyadi article and I want to consult you about the reliability of the book The growth of literature, Volume 2 By H. Munro Chadwick, Nora Kershaw Chadwick (a book about literature, not about history), where it is stated that Hunyadi "was presumably a Magyar". (79.117.154.94 (talk) 13:08, 23 July 2010 (UTC))

Another remark: In the article it is affirmed: Vojk was described as being of Vlach descent by medieval chroniclers and the majority of modern historians although there are others who think he was of ethnic Hungarian origin

I think this text is not correct: The sentence is about Vojk, which is referred in medieval documents as John's father, while source 12 (Chadwick, H. Munro) tells that Hunyadi himself (and not Vojk) was "presumably a Magyar". So it is a mistake here, because we don't even know if Chadwick supposes that Janos's father is Vojk or somebody else (e.g King Sigismund ,according to the legend)(79.117.195.226 (talk) 08:07, 24 July 2010 (UTC))

Pierre Lascalopier

Hello...I don't understand very clear what is wrong with the quote from Pierre Lascalopier. It is referred for example in The making of the Romanian unitary national state 1918, Ştefan Pascu, 1988, which is a secondary source

And what is the additional interpretation = OR? Are you talking about the equalization between "romanechte" and româneşte(Romanian)? The connection seems obvious for me...(79.117.138.55 (talk) 13:36, 26 July 2010 (UTC))

moved discussion to article talk page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.117.166.157 (talk) 14:30, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

A visszaállításod

Hi. Hát egy kis (rövid!) eredeti idézet itt-ott nem érdekes? És még épp az angolnyelvű wikiben, amelyik a leg jobb. Ráadásul, az első forrás még sem a... másodlagos forrás (tehát Makkai, Kristó, Gyóni stb.) hanem a Schwandtner, Endlicher (stb.) könyvek, tehát a forrásgyűjtések és az oklevéltárkiadások, sőt az eredeti krónika ill. oklevél, ha már ezekből szedünk idézeteket. Nem csak szerintem épp így lenne helyes, és mét ott ahol oly sok vita létezik. (Ezzen kivül: van jó fordítás, van gyenge fordítás is. Pld. Rubruck. A Nibelung-ének angol fordításából nem látható, hogy németül azok versek, hősi eposz. Stb. Felraktam volna egy idézetet a Stájerországi Ottokár rímes krónikájából, viz. "a Kroissenbrunn csata" és IV. Béla. Jó, hogy abba hagytam, mi?). Üdv. - Ralsog Iref (talk) 20:25, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Your articles

I believe that both of Foundation of Wallachia and Foundation of Moldavia are really good articles. I think you should submit them at wp:GAN. Let me know if you need any help with that. Also, while Origin of the Romanians is a really well-resourced article, I think it could benefit from submitting it for a peer review. Nergaal (talk) 11:04, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

• for peer reviews it is simple: add at the beginning of the talk page the text {{subst:PR}}, then select the topic (probably history), then leave a text for the reviewers, and then wait for a week or more. check wp:PR for full details.
• for good article nominations it is slightly more tricky: add {{subst:GAN}}, then add the name of the article in the appropriate section at wp:GAN. Then wait (sometimes for over a month) for a reviewer.
• eventually, when the articles become very well polished and "among wikipedia's best", you may even aim for a featured article status. This one though is a loooot more stringent. The upside though is that at that point is eligible to appear on the main page for a day.

Nergaal (talk) 22:11, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

New message!

Reference query in History of Slovakia

Hi. It's a bit of a blast from the past, sorry, but I've raised a small query here: Talk:History_of_Slovakia#Hidden_folksong_text about an edit which was originally yours. If you had time to pop along and take a quick look I'd be most grateful ... but if not, please don't worry as it is not exactly a major issue! Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 08:46, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Clarification?

What should I clarify? It is an exact quote from an academic source... what is the contradiction? (79.117.139.14 (talk) 14:29, 14 October 2010 (UTC))

Please read the edit summary. What are the "oldest extant documents"? Borsoka (talk) 14:32, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't care... do you want to compile an academic source? Are you more authorized than a university historian?(79.117.139.14 (talk) 14:35, 14 October 2010 (UTC))

PS I can't find in the article The statement of N Olahus, can you help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.117.139.14 (talk) 14:37, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Please use the talk page on Origin of the Romanians. Sorry, it was not Nicholaus Oláh but Anton Verancsics who wrote after 1549 that Transylvania "is inhabited by three nations - Szeklers, Hungarians and Saxons. I should add the Romanians too, who, even though they easily equal the others in number, have no liberties..." Pop, Ioan-Aurel; Bolovan, Ioan (2005); History of Romania: Compendium; Romanian Cultural Institute (Center for Transylvanian Studies). ISBN 978-973-7784-12-4. pages 303-304 Borsoka (talk) 14:45, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Greek -Ortodox churches in Hungary in 1054

Hi Borsoka! We have a debate about Hungary (among others) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/File_talk:Great_Schism_1054_with_former_borders.png Would you be so kind as to help us? If you have time and mood, of course. Thank you! Fakirbakir (talk) 12:25, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

We can not decide whether Greek-Orthodox church was a significant or marginal element in Transylvania (and Southern Hungary, Pannonia) at the time of the East-West Schism. We know the presence of the Orthodox church. It is fact. If it was significant i would correct the map.(blue-orange stripes in Southern Hungary and Transylvania). However Kingdom of Hungary was a 'western' Christian state. I have a similar problem with Raguza. I think it was under Croatian control at 1054, I would like to repair its the borders as well. You are expert and have a lot of knowledges about Transylvania, Romania in connection with middle ages. Neutrality is really important in this case. What do you think about it?Fakirbakir (talk) 15:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. Here is a good summary about churches of St Stephen's Hungary. I tried to find source about Tihany what I mentioned on the debate page. Now I have some doubts in reference to religions in Pannonia in the 11th century. Fakirbakir (talk) 23:40, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I am just wondering, according to this source Andrew I was Eastern Orthodox. Is it true? His name was Andrew the Catholic. I am really confused.Fakirbakir (talk) 23:50, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I think I need to reassess my point of view. That dissertation seems well established and contains good sources. Where can we presume Orthodox presence and population in Kingdom of Hungary in the middle of the 11th century?Fakirbakir (talk) 16:36, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Foundation of Wallachia

The article Foundation of Wallachia you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Foundation of Wallachia for things which need to be addressed. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:56, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

well deserved

		The Romania Barnstar of National Merit
		For your great improvements of the Romanian history articles. Keep up the great work! Nergaal (talk) 10:37, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Dacia

Hi, I saw that you collaborated on articles related to Dacia and thought this could be of interest: WikiProject Dacia is looking for supporters, editors and collaborators for creating and better organizing information in articles related to Dacia and the history of Daco-Getae. If interested, PLEASE provide your support on the proposal page. Thanks!!--Codrinb (talk) 05:33, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your support! Looking forward to collaborate. --Codrinb (talk) 02:37, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for your support! I created the 1st draft of the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Dacia. I used Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome as an example since it is similar in purpose and scope, with a nice layout. Please feel free to provide any feedback. Looking forward to collaborate! And Happy Holidays!--Codrinb (talk) 21:29, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Invitation

I'd like to invite you to participate at this discussion (Iaaasi (talk) 14:08, 15 December 2010 (UTC))

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Lords/Barons of Armenian Cilicia

Category:Lords/Barons of Armenian Cilicia, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:35, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Miklós Zrínyi

Hi Borsoka!

I would like to ask you to help us. We have an old problem , duplicated pages about Miklós Zrínyi. Could you please participate in this? If you have time. :-) Talk:Miklós ZrínyiFakirbakir (talk) 14:02, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Full citations

Can you provide full citations where needed in that article about the origin of Romanians? Thanks. Daizus (talk) 13:43, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Please feel free to add any proper text to the sentences. You are probably well aware that WP is a community experience. Cheers! Borsoka (talk) 10:32, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, but some claims in the article seem dubious to me and in opposition to what I want to add. Example:

"all settlements ceased to exist due to violent destruction" with ref. to C. H. Opreanu, The North Danube Regions

while Oltean suggests only hill forts and in general settlements in the central area of the Dacian kingdom (Orăştie Mountains) were destroyed.

Thus I would like to see exactly what Opreanu has to say, to see where is the point of disagreement, if any. Daizus (talk) 11:54, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

• "All settlements, fortified or not, including the Dacian fortresses, ceased to exist due to violent destruction."History of Romania: compendium/2006Fakirbakir (talk) 12:03, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Then how to make NPOV? I have an archaeologist saying the habitation continued. And a general compendium saying it didn't (with no footnotes or further explanations). I'll try also to find some site reports about "non-Roman" (in terms of material culture) settlements in Roman Dacia. Daizus (talk) 12:24, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

I added a full citation from Oltean. There are also figures (maps) and details in previous chapters about those settlements, also arguments why Dacian occupation is assumed and when. Daizus (talk) 12:55, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

I second Daizus here. But I recommend that we move the conversation to the article talk page so people can pitch in. Best regards. --Codrin.B (talk) 20:55, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Oltean on continuous occupation

pp 212-213:

But continuity of population is manifested by continuity of occupation in a number of settlements throughout the study area and by survivals from the pre-Roman period in both the typology and architecture of sites. Very few settlements in Dacia have been proved to be continuously occupied from the pre- to the post-conquest period (Figure 6.2). Within the study area, the most famous examples are the settlements at Cetea and Cicau (see Chapter 5). As is clear from the case of Cetea, the Romans did not move all the Dacian settlements into the lowlands by force. Sometimes, however, settlement movement towards lower altitudes involved only short distances, which may reflect no more than minor adjustments in response to different economic and social circumstances. At Varmaga, for example, Dacian occupation was identified on the top of the hill to the north of the modern village, while occupation of Roman-date was discovered a little distance further down the hill, closer to the modern village. Some 46 sites throughout the area have been documented on the same location in both the La Tene and Roman periods (see Figure 6.2), and future research could prove their continuous occupation more explicitly. One such example is at Hunedoara, where traces of both Dacian and Roman occupation have been identified on the Sampetru Hill near the medieval castle. This was documented largely by pottery, until limited rescue excavations identified traces of ’romanised’ buildings there (in the area of the modern cemetery). In this context, one might have assumed that the Dacian pottery found there might have been of Roman date too, but recent excavations nearby revealed the presence of a Dacian cemetery of infants. This was dated to immediately before the Roman conquest (see Chapter 4) and was perhaps still in use immediately thereafter – as one coin of Trajan associated with one of the burials seems to indicate. In this context, continuity of occupation on the site from the late Dacian to the Roman period becomes evident.

As you can see, she clearly states that for "very few settlements in Dacia have been proved to be continuously occupied" and she brings one example at Hunedoara where she could "prove the continuous occupation more explicitly". So it's entirely unfair to suggest there are no proofs. If you want to put that in the text, then you have to add also that some for some very few sites this was proven. Daizus (talk) 09:27, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Roman Dacia

This user helped promote Roman Dacia to good article status.

Well done. It would be worth the time and effort to put in the page numbers on the cites - but that's not really a GA issue, so that doesn't hold up the pass. SilkTork * 17:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Stephen Báthory

I did read this "But the sultan appointed Stephen Báthory, a Catholic politician, voivode." in the Romania in the middle ages article. When he became prince of Transylvania he made a secret oath to Habsburg Maximilian II. However, the Ottomans and Maximiliam II both wrote 'athnames'for him. According to the oath, Bathory's prinipality was a Habsburg tributary in his early reign. Later, when he became King of Poland (and he had to compete for this title with Maximilliam II) this vassal status ceased (in my opinion).

• Could you please clarify me, which was the real 'overlord' for Báthory's principality in his early reign?
• Can we state Transylvania was an independent state under his latter reign?

Thank you!Fakirbakir (talk) 12:13, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

I think there are some misunderstanding in the above summary. (1) Stephen Báthory began his rule as voivode/vajda of Transylvania, and he adopted the title prince only after he had been elected king of Poland and named his brother to rule in Transylvania in his name (2) Formally, Báthory was elected voivode by the Transylvanian Diet, but in fact the Diet had no choice, because the sultan' deed of confirmation was addresed to him (3) Báthory did not formally deny the special title of the kings of Hungary (that is the title of the Habsburgs) to rule over Transylvania, but in fact the Habsburgs were not in the position to practise their theoretical suzerainty in Transylvania and in the "parts of the Kingdom of Hungary" (4) The Báthory princes had to pay tribute to the Ottomans, with the exception of some years under Sigismund Báthory. Therefore, I think the status of the "principality" of Transylvania was an autonomous state under Ottoman suzerainty. For further details, see and the following chapters. Borsoka (talk) 18:15, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

So, the "Habsburg" connection was only formality. Now I can see the process more clearly. Thank you for your help! (and the link)Fakirbakir (talk) 18:45, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello. I see you have a lot of knowledge about the history of Romania in the early Middle Ages and I'd like to invite you to express your opinion in this discussion: (Iaaasi (talk) 21:37, 26 January 2011 (UTC))

Foundation of Moldavia GAR

Hello. Foundation of Moldavia has received a Good Article Review. It is proposed the article be failed due to the poor readability of its prose throughout the article. It also has significant (fixable) problems with the copyright status of its images. Please visit the review page to join the discussion. - DustFormsWords (talk) 03:06, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

- Thank you for your email. If you address the concerns in the (now-failed) GAR and re-nominate, I would be prepared to fast-track your second review so you don't have to wait in the queue again. Let me know on my talk page if you re-nominate. - DustFormsWords (talk) 05:06, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Naming conventions

Hi. I want to inform you that there is current voting about name of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Momcsilló_Tapavicza#Requested_move Perhaps you can say your opinion there if you wish. PANONIAN 13:31, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

NItrava

Since Nitrava has been identified, although not unanimously, with modern Nitra in Slovakia

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