Talk:Samo
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It seems to me that a translation from the German would be quite useful for this confusing, unorganized article.
The article is neither confusing, nor unorganized. It is written in chronological order. You are free to replace it by a translation of the much longer German version - but provided that you do not leave out information like you have done it in this article (the part about the merchants) - this is an encyclopeadia and not a collection of well sounding sentences, where you can leave out things because you just do not like them ... Juro 15:09, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What I removed was "but after the Slavs had killed some Frankish merchants and had stolen some of their commodities", which I replaced with "Slav conflicts with Frankish merchants" - admittedly, I removed some actual content, but an encyclopedia isn't just a collection of facts, either - it's a collection of well-organized, useful facts, and I'm not sure it's extremely important to include the nature of the conflicts between the Slavs and the French merchants.
As for the organization of the article, yes, it's in chronological order, but it's also one long narrative, and could use with smaller sections. I'm personally not qualified to make any of the changes I suggested (which may have been too harsh) - if I were, I would have done them myself. Chris Edgemon 06:26, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Samo’s empire’s capitol?
Does anyone know where was the capitol city of his empire (I did not see anything in Czech, German or Slovene)?
David Latapie (✒ | @) 15:18, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- The capital has never been identified and there are no written sources about it. Concentration of archaeological findings around Devin Gate suggests that the center of power could be perhaps there, but no location has been safely confirmed. Anyway, European empires of the 7th century did not have capitals in the modern sense and the ruler usually traveled a lot around his domain, residing in different fortified settlements. Tankred 17:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Any other citation of Samo's Empire?
Is there any other reference of Samo's Empire rather than Frederick's Chronicle? As far as I know, there is no archeological site of proof. If only Frederick is dealing with this, can we really rely on this information? This is important, as pan-slavism is partly based on this empire. Abdulka 13:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- Fredegar's account is probably reliable. Samo's empire was not even close to pan-Slavic. Srnec (talk) 02:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
