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Enosis is... meaning or political movement, or disrespect?

Coming here from Corfu, where "Enosis" is used as meaning "joining back with the larger Greece", using the word's general meaning "union".

It is difficult to see a cross-section of usages for this word. When one starts doing so one wonders why Enosis doesn't instead point to Greek football!

822 site:en.wikipedia.org "Enosis"

562 Enosis +"football"

503 Enosis +"club"

332 Enosis +"paralimni"

276 Enosis -"football"

238 "Enosis" -"club" -"football" -"paralimni"

To see non-football and non-Cypriot usages one has to use

40 "Enosis" -"club" -"football" -"paralimni" -"cyprus" -"cypriot"

Now if you want to just point to the number of occurrences, to justify eclipsing the meaning to only one usage, fine, but then I'd say the article should be about football clubs or political parties.

I am disturbed that this article has become "owned" by one particular political movement, certain of their own overriding importance.

Look at a few articles, seeing how they use 'Enosis':

Cretan Revolt (1866–1869)

Look at how the word is used in these articles. Look at how the last article is linked to this article, which has very little to do with the Cretans struggle or the general subject.

One group has decided to throw away the 'meaning' of all previous struggles for Enosis, by any other Greeks, in favor of their own 'importance'. I see quite too much of people saying "that's old news, who cares about that old history". That is what is happening here.

That this article regarding a general term with much more meaning and history lacks balance is unfortunate. That it lacks respect is obvious. That one group of Greeks doesn't see that is a tragedy. 24.28.17.231 (talk) 21:38, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]