Talk:Sarkel
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There is an error here. The Don & Poltava aren't in the same spot as implied.
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It was indeed an error. The city of Poltava, for instance, is located on the Vorskla River in eastern Ukraine. Sarkel was definitely located on the Don River in what is now southern Russia. I fixed this by removing the erroneous sentence about Poltava - what would be helpful would be the name of the current province/district where Sarkel resided. I would like to remind people to stop defacing entries about Khazars with speculations and errors. KAB, 19 July 2004
The article claims that the town's name is spelled Şarkil in "Turkic". What is "Turkic"? If it is Turkish or Tatar, these languages have no relation to the inhabitants of Sarkel. Better spell it in Old Russian. Furthermore, Vernadsky asserts that the name is Ugric (Magyar?) rather than Turkic. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] White Fortress
Nae'blis asked for a citation for the translation White Tower on Talk:White Tower (which is for a disambiguation page). I moved that request here (for the translation White Fortress, more or less the same thing). If somebody cites this, fine; but if it's wrong (or if Fortress is OK but Tower is wrong or questionable), then you may want to remove the listing from White Tower. —Toby Bartels 23:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
