Talk:Nitra
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[edit] Rulers ?
I'm not really sure what this section was about:
- Inhabited since time immemorial, it was an important center of the Celts (last centuries B.C.), and the seat of the first known rulers of what is today Slovak territory. (Quadi around 396?, Nitrian Principality around 800, Great Moravia 824?, Frontier Duchy of Nitra within the Principality of Poland in 1000-1030 and within the Kingdom of Hungary in 970/1048 1077/1108 )
Is this simply a list of different kingdoms that controlled the city? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:46, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
I'd go and ask Juro - I believe he wrote that thing. Jbetak 16:22, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Ok, much clearer. Thanks. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:47, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Trasmitter
"The most powerful mediumwave transmitter of Slovakia, running on 1098 kHz, was situated in Nitra until recently. This transmitter could broadcast throughout all of Europe at night."
Why is this still relevant, if the transmitter no longer exists? Does anyone know? Jbetak 02:13, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The original text (by an unknown contributor) was "is", but the transmitter - which seems to have been "unique", because I have read about it in the newspapers - was shut down several months ago, so I changed it to "was". Juro 19:49, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Juro, are you sure that it was shut down? According to this [1] it currently broadcasts Radio Regina. Brona 22:24, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Ok, here is some more info [2]. It seems the transmitter originally broadcasted the official Slovak radio to whole Europe (so that Slovaks travelling or living abroad could listen), but now it operates on lower output to save energy cost, and transmits regional programming. The change occured in 2003 [3]. Brona 22:44, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- I am not sure about anything concerning the transmitter...Juro 04:11, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Nyitria
The article states that Nitra was frequently known as Nyitria in the past, but using search engines I can only find links to wiki sites repeating this information. Can anyone provide more info/sources on this name? Olessi 9 July 2005 00:17 (UTC)
Books with lists of older names of the town (e.g. "Geographisch-historisches und Produkten Lexikon von Ungarn", Pressburg 1786). The internet is NOT a source for almost anything. Juro 9 July 2005 19:25 (UTC)
- I realize that, Juro. However, usually there are some links on the web. Wiki's spread throughout the net onto so many affiliated sites cloud the search engines, making it more difficult to find a simple name. That's why I asked here. Olessi 20:19, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
Nyitra is the Hungarian name of the city. --Serinde 14:19, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia Olessi. Much of the information you find on Wikipedia and its fellow online encyclopedias (which repeat what Wikipedia states) is not common anywhere else because it is free to all the public to edit. The name "Nyitria" dates back only to centuries after the middle ages and is only a modern Hungarian name. The earliest spellings of the name are Nitrava (870), Nitra (880), and Nitrensis (880). Even though Nitra was part of what Wikipedia calls the "Kingdom of Hungary," its Hungarian name did not develop until the modern era. More examples of this can be found when researching the so-called Kings of "Hungary" such as Ladislaus (Ladislav) or Stephan I. The Hungaraian versions of these names (Istvan and Laszlo) are very young and are not found in any Medieval manuscript or currency or painting. For example, Ladislav, who was born in Nitra, minted coins that had the name "LADISLAV" inscribed, not "laszlo" as in Hungarian. You have to realize that the Hungarian language during the middle ages especially, was almost entirely Slovak because when the Magyars arrived in Europe during the 10th century, their language was poorly developed that they took Slovak words for mountain, hill, stream, government, native plants and species, house, religion, etc. Visit www.slovakia.org for more information. I would like to correct Juro statement about the internet, which is the most popular and largest collection of information ever created (larger than all the books ever made in history combined). The internet can be very helpful as long as you apply common sense and good research skills. Olessi, if you want to learn about Nitra simply visit www.nitra.sk or any official website of Slovakia (www.slovakia.org prezident.sk snm.sk)
The Hungarian langauges beeing a version of the Slovak is stupidity. It's true, that the modern Hungarian langauges did not appear till the 18th century, but the langauges itself egsited. By the way: previously the "Slovak" langauges did not egsited either, but was Slavic, I suppose. It developed with the centuries just like any other one and also splited from the old Slavic langauges - as it resembels to Czech could also mean, that it is? Hungarian took lot of Germanic and latin words also, from hat point of view you could tell it was entirely German or Latin. Or Turkish. Open your mind. We even have words of French and Wallon origin longer than 500 years. --Serinde 18:30, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
You aren't building up your theory of Hungarian's Slovak origins upon forenames like 'Laszlo', are you? If you knew a little more than nothing about Hungarian, you'd know it just doesn't have a leg to stand on. It's like stating that English is entirely Latin, but worse. chery 21:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Images in the article
Can someone upload the images of this article into the Commons category commons:Category:Nitra so other Wikipedias are able to use it? In case it's possible... --Serinde 14:22, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sister Cities
Anyone want to mention the twelve sister cities that Nitra has, according to the city's website? Placenames and spellings are from the city's website.
