Talk:Epirus (ancient state)

Demonym

Currently template:infobox former country doesn't have a demonym section. For anyone curious, Wiktionary cites "Epirote" (Google: 44k), but "Epiriot" also pulls up 9k. -LlywelynII (talk) 13:34, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Aspetos

A decent explanation is needed on why a supposed Albanian word is related with ancient Greek aspetos. A precise quote is also needed to verify the claimed connection.Alexikoua (talk) 20:11, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

I've checked the reference. As I've imagine it's a work published during the totalitarian regime period in Albania, by a number of the communist-era authors of the Academy of Science (in this case Neritan Ceka). No wonder the work takes the Albanian-Illyrian continuity hypothesis for granted (dismissed by international scholarship). Typical wp:fringe that should be avoided.Alexikoua (talk) 20:34, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Dismissed by international scholarship??? By who excactly?? Can someone be more biased than you?? Can't believe you are a Wiki admin!! Etimo (talk) 08:41, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

I think that the one who put the text was right.the reference simply says that it can be explained through albanian word "i shpejt" and nothing more,maybe it could be a loan from greek to alb. and it has no double meanings or tendencies. no one implied that the albanian language existed at the time. i see that it has become normal here to remove a referenced text just as the editors like it, i dont know why that is.i dont know why you mentioned the albanian-illyrian theory here, but you gave me a great opening.when talking about the illyrians on other pages, and their relations to the albanians, have been also used the books of authors who take this "hypothesis for granted" as a reference,and those sources are still there today, so i dont see whats wrong with taking this "hypothesis for granted"? im going to change sth to the sentence so that is more neutral, and im going to restore it.→RcLd-91 (talk) 15:17, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Please understand that you cannot use anachronisms to describe ancient words. This definition does not belong here. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 16:18, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Epirus (ancient state)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Epirus (ancient state)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "RoismanWorthington2011":

• From Dardani: Joseph Roisman; Ian Worthington (7 July 2011). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. John Wiley & Sons. p. 301. ISBN 978-1-4443-5163-7.
• From Ancient Macedonian language: Joseph Roisman; Ian Worthington (7 July 2011). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. John Wiley & Sons. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-4443-5163-7. Many surviving public and private inscriptions indicate that in the Macedonian kingdom there was no dominant written language but standard Attic and later on koine Greek.
• From Molossians: Joseph Roisman; Ian Worthington (7 July 2011). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. John Wiley & Sons. p. 83-84. ISBN 978-1-4443-5163-7.
• From Illyrians: Joseph Roisman; Ian Worthington (7 July 2011). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. John Wiley & Sons. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-4443-5163-7.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:08, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Culture

user:Khirurg how isn't this important piece of cultural shift toward hellenization of Epirus part of the culture? RoyalHeritageAlb (talk) 16:08, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Alexikoua this source is used at at least 4 articles. How come now is a non RS? RoyalHeritageAlb (talk) 07:16, 13 November 2023 (UTC)