Talk:Neman

message: Shouldn't this be at "Niemen"?  That's what I've always seen it as. john k 20:21, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: An interesting statement in which the definition of "always" seems to exclude a few centuries. The 1911 Britannica mentioned Memel (as river and town), but not Nemunas nor Neman (nor Klaipeda). Denying such facts is nationalistic POV, especially regarding the forceful way in which Lithuania took the Memelland region north of the Memel away from Germany in 1923. The south bank of the Memel remained undisputedly German until 1945, now its Russian. I encourage editors to establish NPOV on these issues. --Matthead 20:34, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  kindergarden 

message: How about if we restrict its alternate names to those countries in which it currently flows, borders, or (by historic definitions) has flowed? That would eliminate its Greek and, I think, Estonian names. Novickas 15:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Greek name isn't relevant anyway, it doesn't flow through Greece. I'll remove it. Totnesmartin (talk) 10:24, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate names

message: Hi. I accidentaly found (reading an article about Prokletije mountains) very interesting thing that Nemuna in Albanian means cursed. Maybe it could be any etymological conections with ancient Illyria? Like also that story about Chronos River somewhere in the north or possible conections between Lithuania and Thrace (as sugested by Jonas Basanavičius). Because it doesn't seem that Nemunas could be Baltic name. Hugo.arg (talk) 20:03, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You should take into account pronouncation - Nemunas in lithuanian is pronounced as Ņamunas. As for river name as Cursed river - it's unheard combination in this region, because rivers are thought to be source of fertility - there are quite many Sacred rivers, though. Nemunas river flows through land, that initially was not lithuanian and was inhabitated by baltic prussian(not germans!) and Yatvingians. Since western baltics are quite diverse from eastern baltics, there could be some different explanation for the name. 92.40.248.76 (talk) 23:40, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Illyrian etymology? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: At the moment, it says "In German, the part of the river flowing in what for a time was Prussia...". I would say that essentially over the total duration that the entity called Prussia even existed (as opposed to the region inhabitated by the old Prussians) it included this part of the river. Note that this is also not about Prussia (region), because this region still exists. Thus, I propose to replace "flowing in what for a time was Prussia" by "flowing through historic Prussia". I announce this on the talk page so as not to raise irredentist (or revisionist or whatever) fears if I change it directly. Seattle Jörg (talk) 11:20, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Through Prussia 

message: Isn't this supposedly Wikipedia in English, not Lithuanian? 99.229.116.186 (talk) 00:09, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Niemen is what English speakers call it