Talk:Europe

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Former good article nomineeEurope was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Economy of Europe[edit]

I think this would be in the economy section: Europe has a long history as the world's richest and most productive part of the world. At the time of Christ's birth is estimated western European output per capita was approximately 30% higher than the world average. Year 1500 had this advantage increased to 40%.[1] After the development of science and the Industrial Revolution in Europe grew its lead quickly, in 1700 produced an average European almost 70% more than world's average population, and in 1850 was taken over the entire 150%. Around the year 1900 was Western Europe's leading role as the world's most productive area has been taken over by the former European colony of the United States, but Europe has continued to belong to the world's richest, most productive and knowledge-producing regions.[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.103.205.2 (talkcontribs) 12 January 2011

References

  1. ^ a b Madisson, Angus (2009). [http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/Historical_Statistics/horizontal-file_09-2008.xls Statistics on World Population, GDP and Per Capita GDP, 1-2006 AD].

Chinese Name Change[edit]

I deleted the following sentence from this page:

which is an abbreviation of the transliterated name Ōuluóbā zhōu (歐羅巴洲)

I did this because, I have never heard this term though I am a speaker of Chinese. I asked some native Chinese speakers, and they also had never heard this term. I have found any research indicating that the term 欧洲 is an abbreviation of 欧罗巴州, as the deleted sentence suggests, though 欧罗巴 is direct transliteration of the word Europe into Chinese. The word was used on the Chinese Language Wikipedia page refers to 欧罗巴 only as a transliteration for the Greek word "Europa." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agenbite (talkcontribs) 27 January 2012

The image[edit]

Isn't that Europe image a bit big?

Change native spelling (transliteration) Ukrajina → Ukrayina[edit]

As native, I would like to declare that "Ukrayina" sounds closer to national variation rather than "Ukrajina".

GDP. PPP.[edit]

The 2nd table (for GDP) says its in USD, but it’s really “international” dollars. I reckon you need an explanatory sentence just before the table, to explain the difference with Table1; especially for Russia.

MBG02 (talk) 20:54, 23 October 2018 (UTC)


Name[edit]

Dear editors, I am writing this in order to enrich the hypothesizes for the "Europe" name etymology. I think that in the "name" paragraph, should be mentioned another possible derivation - the name of the river "Evros".

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritsa

Citation: Since, when first attested, Europe referred only to Thrace proper,[7] the name of the continent is possibly derived from this river.

In addition of this I would like to mention the history of Evros as a son of Aimos and Rodopi in the Thracian mythology.

Reference: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%88%CE%B2%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82_(%CE%98%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B7)

Citation: Κατά τη μυθολογία, ο Έβρος ήταν γιος του Αίμου και της Ροδόπης και λατρεύτηκε από τους παρέβριους Θράκες ως θεός, όπως μαρτυρεί αναθηματική επιγραφή των αυτοκρατορικών χρόνων....... 5.171.0.29 (talk) 19:33, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

In my opinion, since there are several hypothesis for the history of the name "Europa" the link right below the NAME title "Further information: Europa (mythology)" should be put after the proper description only of the Greek mythology hypothesis.

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Edits need a reliable source using other pages from English Wikipedia or another language of Wikipedia is not considered a reliable source ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 09:04, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan) made the circumnavigation with sebastian elcano[edit]

The articke as sebastian elcano as circum navigating the world alone when he did it with portugueuse Fernão de Magalhães

Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan) made the circumnavigation with sebastian elcano[edit]

The article as sebastian elcano as circum navigating the world alone when he did it with portugueuse Fernão de Magalhães — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martimafonso (talkcontribs) 07:46, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Ferdinand Magellan never completed the circumnavigation. He was killed in the Battle of Mactan (1521), which took place in the Philippines. Dimadick (talk) 19:47, 13 November 2018 (UTC)