Talk:Roman Libya

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Qyork in topic split

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This article is part of the series related to the History of Libya, a north african country.

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An article about "Roman Libya" is like one about "Roman Germania" (instead of the articles about the actual Roman provinces in Germania, Germania Superior and Germania Inferior, viz. in the Libyan case Libya Inferior and Libya Superior), or worse, if "Libya" is not supposed to mean "Africa" but "the territory of modern Libya", the article topic is bound to generate confusion. It would be an article about "Roman Germany" which does not focus on the territory of Germania as it was understood at the time, but eclectically on the territory of the modern-day territory of Germany as it has stood since 1945. Which would be pointless. Like, say, an article about "Roman Britain" that does not discuss the territory of Roman Britannia but instead the territory of the UK of today ("Roman Northern Ireland"?) --dab (𒁳) 10:23, 23 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

I find illogical the split, because the article is related to the series History of Libya and deals mainly with the areas of this modern country. And it is clearly said this in the article; even that Diocletian created in Cyrenaica an Upper & Lower Libya. It would be like to split the article Roman Britain in "Roman Kent", "Roman Yorkshire", "Roman London", "Roman Cornwall", etc.....--LegaleBDA (talk) 14:38, 1 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
sorry, but this doesn't make any sense. There was no "Roman Libya" in the same sense there was a Roman Britain. Britain (Britannia) was a Roman province. "Libya" was not. An article "Roman Libya" is like an article "Roman Germany". So Diocletian created provinces Libya Inferior and Libya Superior. This probably explains why these pages exist (as redirects, neither of which points here). These are like Germania Inferior and Germania Superior. Note how we still don't have "Roman Germany". The Germania article corresponds to the Ancient Libya one. --dab (𒁳) 08:17, 23 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
I am against the split, for the same reasons of user LegaleBDA. All of us understand that it is related to an 'historical list' of articles, about the History of the actual country called Libya.--Qyork (talk) 20:01, 7 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
I think most of us agree that the tag for split must be erased.--Qyork (talk) 21:04, 28 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

for some reason everyone forgets the tsunami edit

IT was the event that changed everything. There was no "gradual decline" there was a WHAM!!!!! then a feable recovery before the Arabs got there.04:17, 3 March 2015 (UTC)