User talk:Patrick Neylan

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[edit] WT:DYK

Thanks for your comments. The above link is the specific place for discussing DYK philosophy. thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:41, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Avars

I don`t have any particular interest in the issue. I just wanted, simply, to make the article better. I saw your last edit, and I agree with most of it, although there are two issue I want to comment upon:

  1. However, evidence is mounting in favour of the theory that the Avars who settled in Transylvania (called pseudo-avars by early geographers)... - This is wrong. The Avars didn`t settled Transylvania. They settled the Pannonian plain. Transylvania was an inaccesible place, sorrounded by mountains and thick forests, inhospitable for the Avar way of life. They most probably did control it from the military pov, but they didn`t settled it. This confusion probable came from the theory that the Szekelys are the descendants of the Avars. Irrespective of the validity of that theory, the Szekely settled Transylvania in the 13th century, being colonised by king Andrew of Hungary.
  2. The skeletons found in European Avar graves are of a common type, inculding Mongoloid features,... - I think the phrasing skeletons found in European Avar graves show heterogenity is better. Common type is common only to a specific place. A common type in Europe, is naturaly not the same to the common type found in Asia for example. Regarding this subject, you could check out this article.

I forgot to say that I agree to the way you want to structure the article. Go ahead! :D Cheers!

[edit] Iconoclasm

You'll have to do a bit better than that to explain the problem! As it is, it's worse than no explanation - though it will doubtless provoke someone else or me to improve it. Johnbod 02:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Manzikert

The image description says that it shows the dates when the Turks took the cities in Asia Minor and the little red thing is a flame, like a fire resulting from conquest and destruction, just to emphasize the conquest. Click on the image to see it more clearly. Tourskin (talk) 18:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)