Talk:Kingdom of Middag

Some sources

Basic Info--Jerry 00:01, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Dachia Shisheh Incident--Jerrch 16:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Claimed dates

This article makes uncited claims that the kingdom of Middag was established in the mid-16th century or the 1540s. Is there any information at all about them before David Wright's account from the 1650s, describing them as one of 11 "shires or provinces" of the lowlands? Kanguole 21:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

The end date is also unfounded. The article (again uncited) speaks only of populations in the same area. Kanguole 09:03, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Question about template

(Note: I originally wrote this on the help desk page; the version here is a bit altered to fit the nature of this talk page.)

The template shows nothing for "Preceded by" in this article's template, even though the page "Prehistory of Taiwan" exists. Could anyone please tell me if I should add it?--Thylacine24 (talk) 03:19, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Where did the exonym "Middag" come from?

Sources make it clear that the name "Middag" was only used by the Dutch and, by extension, other Westeners. What confuses me is that "Middag" is the Dutch word for "afternoon" or, historically, "noon" (literally: "midday"). My first thought was that they had simply tried to "Dutchify" the native name, but then why would they use such a commonly used word? Surely calling something the "Midday Kingdom" or "Afternoon Kingdom" must have been for a reason? "Middag" barely even resembles "Dadu". ivdnt.org shows that the word "middag" had the exact same meaning and spelling back in the 1600s. Are there any sources that shed light on this? Prinsgezinde (talk) 00:04, 11 December 2020 (UTC)