Disputatio:Aberdonia
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[recensere] Devanha
What's the source for this name? It doesn't look Latin and can't be Greek. Andrew Dalby 14:17, 31 Decembris 2006 (UTC)
- Looks portuguese...--Ioshus (disp) 17:13, 31 Decembris 2006 (UTC)
- I've looked into this now. Devanha is a misspelling. There was such a name in that district in classical times (Deouana in Ptolemy; Devonis or similar in the Ravenna Cosmography; probably Devana in Latin) but no one knows if it was precisely Aberdeen, and the Roman Britain people think not.
- Therefore, our article about Aberdeen should be under the usual later Latin name, which is Aberdonia (see e.g. Hofmann). I could move it by copy-and-paste, but if an admin will kindly delete the current redirect page at Aberdonia I will move it in the proper way! Andrew Dalby 13:38, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
- Aberdonia is red now. --Rolandus 13:51, 20 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)