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CITE semantic annotations for place references in Croatian Latin texts
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Geticus/Romania - deleting an entry in loci-id-novi? #37

Closed zeljkasalopek closed 7 years ago

zeljkasalopek commented 7 years ago

As we have agreed yesterday, we will refer an ancient (place) name to an ancient place and solve the problem of the fact that the writer is referring to the modern place with the time range.

I have entered an adj. Geticus (<Getae) with the reference to Romania before the meeting. In this particular case I think we should delete the entry. (Another solution would be just to change the (Latin) nomen in order to leave the urn for Romania. The nomen could be Romanus - the name attested for the citizens of R. in 16.c. or maybe Romania? (from wikipedia : The use of the name Romania to refer to the common homeland of all Romanians—its modern-day meaning—was first documented in the early 19th century.[d] The name has been officially in use since 11 December 1861)

zeljkasalopek commented 7 years ago

A few entries and a coffee later... It turns out I will need an urn for Romania. I have in my text a "Transistrana Hungaria", (for which Tubero later says it was former Dacia). It is a territory of modern Romania. The question remains can we use the term "Romania" as the "most common Latin name" for the "nomen" in loci-id-novi?

nevenjovanovic commented 7 years ago

@zeljkasalopek -- the Latin Wikipedia has an entry for Romania, so I think it is safe to use this as the "most common (modern) Latin name". Just go ahead and change it!