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Find correct name The airport is not listed as João Paulo II anywhere. The airport's own website calls itself simply Ponta Delgada, and has no mention of João Paulo.

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Template:Regions of Portugal: statistical (NUTS3) subregions and intercommunal entities are confused; they are not the same in all regions, and should be sublisted separately in each region: intermunicipal entities are sometimes larger and split by subregions (e.g. the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon has two subregions), some intercommunal entities are containing only parts of subregions. All subregions should be listed explicitly and not assume they are only intermunicipal entities (which accessorily are not statistic subdivisions but real administrative entities, so they should be listed below, probably using a smaller font: we can safely eliminate the subgrouping by type of intermunicipal entity from this box).

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Since the map depicted in the article refers to ancient times can it name SPAIN as HISPANIA (the then name of the region) just as France is referred to as GAUL (in fact it should be GALLIA)? This way people will also get information about ancient names of these regions. --Apoorv Khurasia 12.04.07

Losing siege engines in the Alps?

Do any primary sources indicate that Hannibal lost siege engines in the Alps? Nothing that I have read ever indicated that his army contained a siege train, and it seems far-fetched and impractical that Hannibal would have his men drag bulky, cumbersome siege engines all the way from southeastern Spain over the Alps into Italy. Besides, Hannibal's plan was not to annihilate the city of Rome itself, but rather to separate Rome from its allies by exposing the Roman weakness in battle. If he needed siege engines, why wouldn't Hannibal simply have them built in Italy by his anti-Roman allies? Are Siege engines crossing the Alps? I have never heard of this, although maybe someone could correct me. Elephants yes, but I have never heard of siege engines in Hannibal's march. Lazenby certainly doesn't mention any siege engines... did Livy or Polybius mention them?

Where is the major Berber involvement on the Phoenician thus creating the Punic language

Where is the major involvement of the Berbers ( called Numidians, moors, mauri´s, Berbers, Libyans' The origin of Punic isn´t Carthage but Phoenicians who were a minority creating a society with the majority Berbers talking a new language called PUNIC? Fucking racist bullshit motherfuckers.

What an astounding intellectual contribution! Rather than provide citations for the claims made, then editing the article with the citations, you come here and begin some odd rant, lousy with profanity. I'm quite certain that your mother and father are proud of you.Wzrd1 (talk) 17:56, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

replacement proposal

Hi everybody, I made an animated gif showing how Rome and Carthage's possessions changed during the three Punic Wars. Maybe it could help to have an overview of what happened in these three wars. I noticed that the current image Carthaginianempire.PNG is focused only on the Carthaginian situation, so I think that looking at the entire timespan from both sides may improve the understanding of the events. What do you think? I'm open to suggestions or improvements to the animation. Agata brr (talk) 22:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fix the "Expansion depth limit exceeded" issue (17 June 2017)

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I see "Expansion depth limit exceeded" over and over again in the "Second Punic War" section. Please either correct the syntax error causing the message or just remove whatever is causing the error in the first place. Konokai (talk) 13:16, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Done someone had vandalised {{Campaignbox Second Punic War}}, which I have reverted. Thanks for reporting the problem. For future reference, WP:HD or WP:VPT are good places to report technical problems, and can sometimes get attention more quickly than an edit request, but any form of report which clearly flags a problem for attention is good. Murph9000 (talk) 13:26, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

3rd Punic war officially ended in 1985?

The research team behind QI just tweeted that the third punic war officially ended in 1985. If someone can find a reference, surely that's worth a mention!

Apepper (talk) 09:29, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]