Talk:History of Albania
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This article is too long. Are there any objections to the following breakup? Maybe the middle ages section could be merged with another. --Jiang
- I would rather most of the information remained in the article. I am wikifing it a bit. After I do that I will try and trim it down as much as I can. I am especially interested in keeping the early history (Illyrians). Perhaps in this article we could have a bit of each section and then make new articles that contain all the info. What's the guideline for the length of an article? Dori 14:42, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- See History of Germany. No information should get lost. There is only a few sentences in each section, and if the reader is interested, he/she can switch directly to the article covering the time period in full by clicking the link. -- Cordyph 14:55, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- No, don't remove any information. Timming it down is a bad idea. There's some text from http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/altoc.html that I'm also adding in. This page could contain a general overview. See also http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3235.htm#history --Jiang
- OK, I guess I misunderstood. I don't have any problems at all with sectioning it. Thank you for doing so. Dori 23:09, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Okay, the subarticles are done. Now we just have to edit the main page. --Jiang
About the external links. The first one is a collection of materials which also contains material in English. The second one is a thorough histiry, but it ends with the year 1912. Andres 12:56, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I just figured they were interesting and pertinent links. I can't really vouch for all the info in there as to being accurate or complete. --Dori 13:41, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Yes, of course, they are good sources. What concerns me is that their characterizations should be more accurate, but I am not sure about how they should be formulated. I think for the first one it is not right to say that it is a comprehensive history. And it is important to know that it also contains material in English. If you just say it's in Albanian most people won't look at it. And the second one is comprehensive except for the recent history, I think it's important to mentuin this. I hoped to find information about the original name of the National Liberation Front but there wasn't any. Andres 14:00, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Oh, I see. When I looked at it, they seemed to contain just info in Albanian, and there was lots of it, so I just called it comprehensive :) You can change the wording if you want, I realize they're not completely comprehensive. --Dori 14:06, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Emperor Justinian
Born in Illyricum---was the town he was born in (near Skopje, in what was at least for a time the Roman province of Macedonia) incorporated in the province of Macedonia or Illyricum? I lean towards Macedonia, but I'm not sure. Anyway, there is absolutely no indication that he spoke Albanian--historical sources say his family spoke Latin, I think. Decius 07:49, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
