Talk:Syracuse, Sicily

message: Should this be moved to Syracuse, Syracuse as it is in the Province of Syracuse, and using the island of Sicily is not a standard naming convention? —ScouterSig 23:50, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you go through the archive?  Does anyone seriously think that Syracuse, Syracuse is better than Syracuse, Sicily?  What next, New York, New York!?   πιππίνυ δ - (dica) 13:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I had not checked the archive; don't jump on my back, man, please. And as far as NY, NY, I think that it would be a perfectly appropriate name (if a little redundant) not only to follow conventions but for specificity. —ScouterSig 14:27, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a half joke - I had Frank Sinatra's raspy voice in my head as I wrote it.  πιππίνυ δ - (dica) 00:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

text: I'm guessing it was originally moved to disambiguate from Syracuse, NY. But the naming convention is fine, if anything you could say why isn't it Syracuse, Italy? El Greco(talk) 19:11, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Partly because it's so closely identified with Sicily-ness, ;-/ partly because it's been part of Sicily for much longer than it's been part of Italy.... FlagSteward (talk) 18:20, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move? 

message: Shouldn't this be removed from the list of "Syracuse" since it isn't known as Syracuse by its residents or in Italy? Just seems confusing for ppl like me looking for cities actually named Syracuse (looking for a University in NY)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.105.236.66 (talk) 15:55, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Siracusa 

message: I have just been reading through the archive and couldn't believe to all the different/uninformed/wrong theories that came out! I just wanted to say my opinion about the topic even if it's been discussed and people still don't listen.
Syracuse, as it has been already said, today is part of the Italian Republic! Syracusan citizens hold aan Italian passport (not Sicilian) and the local goverment (sicilian) is very limited and still subject to national directives. There was no need to move it to Sicily because there are no other Syracuse in Italy. For those that were arguing about the history and ancient times the city has been under different domination and part of many empires and kingdoms. Syracuse, today, is in Italy.--Sal73x (talk) 12:45, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Syracuse, Sicily-Italy

message: IMO this is the primary topic. Are there any other opinions on this? Thank you. --Kleinzach 02:32, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Primary topic

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thread_title: WikiProject Cities Assessment

message: Apart from one short paragraph, there seems to be a gap in the coverage of the article between the defeat of Hieronymous and the Byzantine era. Did nothing of interest happen during that 500 years? --Ammilne (talk) 16:14, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing half century 

message: The article on the Ten Thousand lists 300 hoplites from Syracuse. Is this a data discrepancy or is there an accounting for the other 2,700 hoplites?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.115.250.17 (talk) 18:09, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed a discrepancy. As the source cited (Anabasis) says 300, I'll make the change. Robincantin (talk) 00:17, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  3,000 hoplites? 

message: As far as I know, historians believe that the Military of the Kingdom of Syracuse during its Greek era was largely militia, meaning very few professional soldiers, and mostly militia hoplites and slingers. I think this is worth mentioning. If I don't get any no's, I'm going to put it in. Smeagol630 (talk) 23:50, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it is noteworthy enough to mention it because militias were commonly employed by all Greek city-states. Taken from Ancient Greek warfare: At least in the Archaic Period, the fragmentary nature of Ancient Greece, with many competing city-states, increased the frequency of conflict, but conversely limited the scale of warfare. Unable to maintain professional armies, the city-states relied on their own citizens to fight. This inevitably reduced the potential duration of campaigns, as citizens would need to return to the own professions (especially in the case of farmers). --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 10:34, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Military

message: Well, it's fine to include the local language demonym even though that's really better handled at the Italian Wiki article, but we need to have the English demonym here. [Done and cited.] The page previously provided the (unsourced) English demonym "Siracusan"; per the OED, the actual English form uses the English spelling of the place's name: "Syracusan". I don't think the partially-Italianized Siracusan really needs to be mentioned at all but, if someone can find an RS citation for it, it's fine to list it in the footnotes or infobox as an alternate form. (Neither the OED nor M-W.com even list it.)
That said, the OED does seem to be a bit off when it says that "Syracusian" is fully obsolete. The editors to this page already used it twice without thinking anything of it; Google Scholar pulls several thousand hits for "Syracusan" but still a few hundred scholarly uses of "Syracusian" to only a hundred or less Italian scholars, writing in English, who use "Siracusan". — LlywelynII 02:44, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Demonym

message: (this is regarding this edit) True, I had both this article and Syracuse, New York opened in my browser and I mistook one for another. My mistake. Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 18:05, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha, no worries, . Regards, Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 18:22, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA transcriptions in the lead 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion 

message: Please consider incorporating material from the above draft submission into this article. Drafts are eligible for deletion after 6 months of inactivity. ~Kvng (talk) 18:19, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Polis refers to a state, not just a city; it is very practical for Syracuse as it controlled an area that was way bigger than just a city. T8612 (talk) 20:02, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am aware of that, although most of the territories controlled by Syracuse at the various points when it was expansive were not part of the polis of Syracuse... I still worry that it isn't a very transparent disambiguator for someone coming to the article from outside a classics/Greek history background. Furius (talk) 22:42, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Draft:Syracuse (polis)]]

message: Okay we've been hosting incorrect climate data for this city for quite some time.  What I trust to be correct is the data currently visible on the Italian Wikipedia at https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazione_meteorologica_di_Siracusa ... however their climate tables are  in a wholly different format than ours and copying it over will take quite some time.  In the meantime  I just removed our table on the basis that no data is superior to bad data.     Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, —Soap— 15:44, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate data 

message: https://www.citypopulation.de/en/italy/sicilia/siracusa/089017__siracusa/  -- down to 118K, according to this site. 50.111.15.21 (talk) 08:21, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  population estimate (declining birthrate)