Talk:Siege of Constantinople (626)

Sassanids?
It's remarkable fact that the Sassanids never fought at this battle. It was only the Avars who were attacking. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SassanidCataphract (talk • contribs) 05:34, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Aftermath of Avar invasions
I don't think this is explained very well. The result of the various invasions was that the Avars were repulsed from the main coastal cities (including Constantinople and Thessaloniki), but for at least 300 years afterwards Slavs inhabited large areas of inland western Greece (including even parts of the Peloponnese in the 7th century). For most of the 7th through 10th centuries, the Greek language was most solidly established in Anatolia, not Greece proper (see "Empires of the Word" by Nicholas Ostler)... AnonMoos (talk) 17:32, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Siege of Constantinople (626)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Siege of Constantinople (626)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Oman210": From Shahrbaraz:  From Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628:  

Reference named "Norwich92": From Battle of Nineveh (627):  From Byzantine Empire under the Heraclian dynasty:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:53, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Avar subjects
Primary sources mention other peoples besides Slavs that participated in this battle, including Huns, Scythians, Bulgars, and Gepids. (footnote 24) --Z 13:22, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Who is John Seismos?
In the section "Background", a person named John Seismos is mentioned. There is no hyperlink on the name, he is not mentioned elsewhere in the article, and even a Google search did not make it clear to me who John Seismos was. I have requested a clarification via the appropriate template. If none is given, I shall go ahead and delete the reference to this enigmatic character. Nikolaj1905 (talk) 14:34, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

"Location within Istanbul"???
What does this refer to? There was no such place at the time, 626, in history. What is supposedly within? Middle More Rider (talk) 21:56, 8 July 2023 (UTC)


 * The sentence refers to a modern map showing the location of the siege. Today, the location where the siege took place is within the city of Istanbul. Nikolaj1905 (talk) 09:43, 26 July 2023 (UTC)