Talk:Vergina

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Greece; If you would like to join us, please visit the project page; if you have any questions, please consult the FAQ.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
Additional information: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: not checked

it wasn't a group of nationalists who opposed to the use of the name and the vergina symbol in the flag of FYROM. You should know that in Thessaloniki there was a gothering of 1million people in the center of the City shouting against this. Does this mean that we have 1 million nationalists (almost half the population of northern greece??). No, it is common in greece when you feel you are right you have to express it. nezos

Virtually all Greeks are Greek nationalists, and there is nothing wrong with that. But the rightness or wrongness of any issue is not determined by the size of demonstrations. I happen to think the Greeks were right to protest against the Republic of Macedonia using the Star of Vergina and the White Tower on their flag etc, since this suggested a territorial claim on Greece and was a pointless provocation. But the Greeks were and are wrong to demand that Macedonia not call itself Macedonia. Every country has the right to call itself whatever it likes. Adam 14:07, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well im half-greek and i really am tired to hear of that discussion anymore. Of course every county would had been worried in the same situation, it mustnt be forgotten that the people in ex-yugoslavia killed each other due to "historical claims of territory". But today i really dont care if fyrom calls it self makedonia or taka-tuka-country or whatsoever. What i was looking for was material on the discussion, whos really buried in the graves, ive read the book of andronikos, who of course inclines it is the the tomb of Philipp B. Michael Pfrommer, Alexander der Große, in contrast, brings up good arguments to attribute the burial site to philipp arrhidaios. Im really disappointed i dont find anything related to that here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.175.51.53 (talk • contribs).

So write something yourself. This is an open-access encyclopaedia. Adam 10:45, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 See also section 2 Coordinates 3 False info 4 Can someone redirect? 5 Aigai/Aegae

[edit] See also section

There is no need for a See also section that lists a link already in the body of the article. See Wikipedia:Manual of style. Jkelly 00:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Coordinates

Adam, are you perhaps unaware of Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Geographical coordinates? It's increasingly common now for Wikipedia articles on geographical localities to include coordinates as an aid to finding places on externally linked maps or satellite views. Saying that "this belongs in an atlas, not an encyclopaedia" is a really bizarre justification for removing them, and it's inconsistent with existing guidelines and practice. On the contrary - it allows this encyclopaedia to reference atlases in a useful way. -- ChrisO 08:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] False info

Dear "Macedonia", please, stop trying to make a nationalistic point by inserting false info. First Krste Misirkov, you kept trying to insert that "fact" for weeks, while he was born in a different city altogether, 40km away. Now this. The area was mixed Greek/Bulgarian/Turkish, and the original 19th C Greek church still stands there, and many of the original Greek families live there. Sysin 21:52, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can someone redirect?

I don't know how to do it, but this should redirect from Verghina and it doesn't. Joey 19:17, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Verghina&redirect=no, which I just created, as an example of how to create a Wikipedia:Redirect. Jkelly 19:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aigai/Aegae

I just wanted to hear opinions regarding a split of the article I'm quite determinated to make, so to transfer much material under the new article Aegae. Keeping it here seems a bit like calling Istanbul the capital of the Byzantine emperors, i.e., an anachronism, since Vergina simply didn't exist before the 20th century.--Aldux 10:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

The site is called Vergina now, and this article should contain a description of what is at the site now and the history of its discovery and excavation. An article on Aigai would be about the ancient city and what happened there. Adam 11:23, 16 July 2006 (UTC)