Talk:Thasos

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Turkish and Bulgarian names should not be used in the English version since Greek Goverment does not recognise the use of these languages and are not used anywhere. Use Bulgarian and Turkish versions of wiki. There are no minorities in the Island of Bulgarians and Turkish. Attacks of Slavic Macedonians, Turks, Bulgarians is rather irritating, and can be consired only as spam. There are internationals treaties that the island belongs to modern Greece. Thats the situation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kavaliotaki (talk • contribs).


 * The Turkish and Bulgarian names are referring to the history that at one point or another, the city was under foreign control and had a non-Greek name. That's also not questioning the ownership of the island. It's a Greek islandand there is no need to go around and removing it. El Greco (talk · contribs) 13:20, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Listen to El Greco man, I'm Greek myself and never have I heard of any sovereignity issues regarding Thasos. If there are indeed historic names for the island, they should be mentioned in the article, period. Compare with Instabul for example: it has Greek, Turkish, Slavic and even Viking names. EpiVictor 15:57, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Date of the colony
Does anyone know where the current date of the colonization—"either 720 or 708 BC"—is coming from? I'm used to the first half of the 7th century as the accepted dating. davidiad.: 21:59, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * They seem to be drawn from Xanthus of Lydia (via Clement of Alexandria) and Dionysus (of Halicarnassus?). One coincides with the first year of the 15th Olympiad, the other with the 18th Olympiad. What you're used to - "first half of the 7th century" - is almost certainly more sound and scholarly than either date.  Sadly, I've worked out none of this for myself.  It comes from A. J. Graham, "The Foundation of Thasos", The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 73, (1978), pp. 61-98 (available through JSTOR).  Haploidavey (talk) 22:33, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You're a prince! (And I'm lazy.) davidiad.: 23:57, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Prince nonetheless. davidiad.: 00:52, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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Requested move 29 August 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 04:14, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Thassos → Thasos – Article moved without discussion. According to Google Ngrams, Thasos is the dominant spelling. See also Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_August_28. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 02:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support -- If the name is correctly spelt in Greek, the suggested spelling is appropriate. I checked W. Smith, A smaller classical dictionary (1867), 418-9.  This prefers the spelling Thasos, with the Latinised Thasus as an alternative, but notes Tasso as an alternative spelling.  Peterkingiron (talk) 14:14, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support: I checked ngrams for Thassos, Thasos, Thassus, and Thasus, all of which it seems have been used historically, but Thasos seems to be the leading contender even in the earliest period, although Thasus was also pretty common up until 1920 or so. The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography uses Thasos, with Thassos as an alternative form; Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities also gives Thasos, with Thasus as an alternative.  If these older sources, from a period when Latinisation was the rule, prefer Thasos, then that seems like pretty good evidence to me as to the dominant form—but it wouldn't hurt to include the other three in the lead, since those could well be encountered in literature, and all but Thassus still seem to be current; and that form can be found at about the same frequency as Thassos in nineteenth century sources.  I believe that Thaso, Tasso, and similar forms are modern.  P Aculeius (talk) 14:43, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support and snow close. This is an absolute no-brainer. As far as I can see, every single article containing this name use the Thasos spelling: Archaeological Museum of Thasos, Battle of Thasos, Metropolis of Philippi, Neapolis and Thasos, Thasos (town), Kastro, Thasos etc., as well as the categories Category:Thasos, Category:Geography of Thasos, Category:Populated places in Thasos etc. Don't use any time on this. --T*U (talk) 11:37, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. Direct transliteration, unambiguous, and widely used. Should not have been moved in the first place. Constantine  ✍  12:21, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support transliteration, wide usage, and was happily at Thasos for a long time prior to apparently undiscussed move. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:13, 31 August 2020 (UTC)


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