Talk:Ankh-Morpork

message: I'd like to try and come up with a Topographic_map of Ankh-Morpork. I've read most of the novels over the last 18 years and do remember Terry talking about parts that are below the level of the river, etc, etc. We know Nap Hill is a hill but how high is it? If you would like to help then please include the book title, page number and extract. --Mikecook 20:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs have already published one, called The Streets of Ankh-Morpork. It was basically done in the same way as you describe - putting together all the different bits of information from the books. -=# Amos E Wolfe talk #=- 07:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ankh-Morpork Topographic Map

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message: When has A-M ever been called the Big Oyster? I recall "pearl of cities" in TLF, but that's as close as it gets. Daibhid C 14:19 19 Oct 2005 (UTC)
:Yep, it's been that said that comparing Ankh-Morpork to the diseased secretions of a dying Mollusc is very apt! The Kinslayer 14:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Big Oyster? 

message: What's the deal with this Wincanton business? I mean... what... what's the deal? Melchoir 07:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  fiction tag 

message: The plural of hippopotamus is hippopotami. 
195.190.143.254 (talk) 11:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The coat of arms on the page currently is shamefull. Here is a better picture: http://disquemonde.free.fr/discw
This is taken from the cover of "The Streets of Ankh Morpork", but I'm not sure how to copyright it or post it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.150.230.126 (talk) 19:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coat of Arms 

message: Hi all,
Seeing as virtually every representation of the city clearly shows the river with an identical 'Thames Meander' (thoses who know the Eastenders opening credits will know what I mean!), I added this little fact into the opening paragraph of 'The River Ankh', which also draws comparisons to the Thames.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.111.44 (talk) 21:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Thames and The Ankh 

message: Kar98 (talk) 15:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of the name?

message: The article states that the AM$ coin is "sequin (coin) sized" and links to the entry on the coin of that name. However, that entry gives no information on the dimensions of the coin, and the image is a magnification without scale. I haven't been able to find any information on the size of a sequin coin, so, as it stands, the information given is useless, if interesting. Can anyone please determine either the size of the sequin, or (probably better) a more useful comparison, and amend appropriately? Kay Dekker (talk) 18:42, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Currency size?

message: I'm fairly sure that the dwarf population mentioned here doesn't refer to the Deep Downers mentioned in Thud! but I can't find anything to back this up. 92.29.178.30 (talk) 22:36, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dwarf Population 

message: Is there any reason why I just found the Ankh-Morpork article linked to a barge on Nordereiland in Rotterdam on google earth, surely if any round world place deserves the article it is wincanton.  is this something I'm missing in the article or is it something that google hae done themselves. Waacstats (talk) 00:01, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Google Earth

message: 1.6km is the current size, which is a tiny bit under a mile, in the article. It is stated in Guards! Guards! to be 8 miles across, however. Is the 1.6km stated by Pratchett at a more recent time ...?
I'm not going to change it, because although it is uncited as far as I'm aware it doesn't need to be cited if it comes from the work - as the novel is the citation, right? And it must have come from somewhere, so I won't touch it, but I thought I'd say here that the city is definately stated as 8 miles in Guards! Guards! 94.175.97.87 (talk)Lord loss210  —Preceding undated comment added 10:51, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: Ankhapur first appears in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, published in 1987. Ankh-Morpork first appears in The Colour of Magic, published in 1983. So it was not influenced by it at all. Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar appears to be a much more prevailing influence.Werthead (talk) 23:53, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ankhapur 

message: I might point out that Minas Tirith is itself a reference to Byzantium, and that Pratchett may have actually been hinting to the historical Western perspective on the Byzantine Empire, who for 1000 years remained the continuation of the Roman Empire after the "Fall of Rome", but whose inhabitants were seen and portrayed by Westerners as decadent, bad smelling, and corrupt. In some ways, Ankh-Morpork parodies the Great City of Constantinople.
Ambarenya13 (talk) 19:13, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Minas Tirith reference

message: Since the Guilds are described as institutions of great civic importance to Ankh-Morpork, and as the Assassins' Guild is mentioned, should not other Guilds such as those of the Thieves, the Beggars and the 'Seamstresses' be also mentioned?
Also, should there not be a greater discussion of the governmental structure of Ankh-Morpork? Much of the nature of the Patriciate tyranny is idiosyncratic of Lord Vetinari -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:A401:FA00:B400:119C:BF76:75AB (talk • contribs)  20:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Tell you what... If you find a WP:SECONDARY source discussing this stuff, you can summarize it for the Wikipedia readers. Otherwise no. Binksternet (talk) 21:10, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Guilds and Leadership

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