Talk:Melus of Bari

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Is "freedon-fighter" an unnecessarily jarring anachronism? --Wetman 04:11, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I used it on purpose because I believe I read him called that somewhere. It did sound anachronistic. I have never read that he had an ambition to carve his own principality though. Srnec 04:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Are links to places correct?
In the article, it is stated 'In 1010, they took Ascoli and Troina' with links to Ascoli Picento and Troina, Sicily. John Julius Norwich states that they took 'Ascoli and Trani'. Trani seems far more likely than Troina, which is 614km away from Bari in what was Saracen occupied Sicily at the time. Trani is 45km up the coast; Trani is a far more likely option.

Ascoli Picento is 403km away from Bari. It is most unlikely that this would have been a target for Melus given the distance involved and the fact that it would have been part of the Duchy of Spoleto at the time and therefore outside the area that the Byzantine Empire controlled. Ascoli Satriano is 135km away but would have been held by the Byzantines and is thus a more obvious target. This choice coincides with a map in the early pages of Before The Normans by Barbara M. Kreutz that shows Ascoli to be what is now known as Ascoli Satriano.

Martinjhawkins (talk) 20:32, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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