Talk:Voivode

message: Rákóczi was not a voivode, but a prince. After the formation of the Principality of Transylvania the rulers generally used the title princeps to separate themselves to the former voivodes.84.2.210.61 10:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  voivodes and princes of Transylvania 

message: Ok, let just solve naming problem with voting.
===Article should keep name "voivod"===
#PANONIAN (talk) 14:43, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Voting

message: #PANONIAN (talk) 14:43, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article should keep name "voivod"

message: # Though both forms voivod and voivode are valid, I think it's a good idea to try and pick a consistent guideline on Wikipedia.  If I have to choose one or the other, I think that the spelling of voivode is more consistent with the word voivodeship which seems to be the standard in major dictionaries (Oxford and Webster's, as well as the Encyclopedia of the Ukraine ), The "e" spelling is also the one which has been chosen by consensus at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Geography of Poland. --Elonka 18:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of the article should be changed to "voivode"

message: This section, specifically the rendering in various languages, needs some serious cleanup.  I can't imagine Polish has five different words/spellings for the same thing, which one is it?  Can there be some clarification of what all the others are?  Archaic forms or something?  And what's the dangling voyvoda at the end of the paragraph? -Bbik 07:03, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology section

message: This seems to have been borrowed from old Finno Ugrian word "vaino" = presledovat = persecution, which is the way how the Slavs conducted war against the enemy. In Finnish (and other Finno Ugrian languages) the "vainolainen" had entered to their area led usually by  Moskovan (Muscovite) Vojevodi (War Lord) = "sotaherra" = Krieg Herr. His actions were mainly against the local civilian peasant population which he "vainota" = pritesnit = persecuted, not so much open battle warfare against the equal armed enemy force. Sota (open war) = vojna (war) = krieg is also derived to Russian language from verbal version of "vaino". Finnish "herra" seems also to have been borrowed to old German language meaning der Herr or der Gebieter = The Ruler. Thus Voivod did not originally mean Ruhtinas / Ruhtinaz = Knjaz = Prince, only War Lord.
The connection to Princedom origin may have been introduced and added later after founding the Romanoff Dynasty in 1613. It seems that the Polish version did come from Lithuanian origin.
The Hungarians can explane better than me the roots for Erdely´s (Transsilvanian / Siebenburger) Vajda. Peharps the roots of the word is little better explaned from different point of view.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.205.131 (talk) 03:26, August 30, 2007 (UTC) 
I noticed while reading this article that a bot added a set of coordinates for some settlement in Alaska. I also noticed that this settlement has absolutely nothing to do with the article except that it shares a name. I will be removing this coordinate reference. 207.72.6.57 (talk) 18:02, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Slavic word Vojevodi / Voivod 

message: Translation of this word Voivoda on English language is Duke so i am nominating merging this articles, and they aren't any alternative word. Snake bgd 10:03, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is too complex: prince, duke, field marshal, warlord (leader of guerilla unit). Leave it as is. N Jordan (talk) 21:11, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for merge 

message: Several comments and suggestions above and in the article assert that the English equivalent to voivode is duke or prince, because those words are used to translate the titles for Western European noblemen of similar function or rank (e.g. Herzog, Fürst, Knyaz). Although I see sources that suggest this may have been true in ancient or medieval times, it does not appear to be true in the early modern or current world. Is there any evidence that in post-medieval (after 1500) eastern Europe, the title voivode was hereditary, as "duke" and "prince" were in Western Europe? If not, it is misleading to give readers the impression that "duke" or "prince" should be used to translate the title of any voivode after approximately 1500, yes? FactStraight (talk) 23:57, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duke or prince? 

message: Unfortunately, WP does not treat books written before 1945 as primary sources (which could only be cited based on secondary sources, written during the last 7 decades). However, is there any editor who thinks that an article based on 100-year-old sources is acceptable? Borsoka (talk) 18:02, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources