Talk:Altai Republic
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"Upper Altai Republic" redirects here, but upper or lower are not explained here. --Menchi 13:07, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I was unable to locate the redirect page you are referring to.--Ëzhiki 14:11, Jun 17, 2004 (UTC)
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- From what I know "Upper Altai" in this context is a way of translation of the former name of this republic (Республика Горный Алтай), which literally means "Mountain(ous) Altai". The republic was renamed "Altai Republic" (Республика Алтай) in 1992, since "Altai" translates literally as "mountains", which thus makes the name redundant.
- Upper Altai also means a part of Altai located in Russia (as opposed to Lower Altai in Mongolia), but clearly this is not what was meant in the Tuva article reference. It would be nice though if this information was added to the Altai article.
- Hope this helps. I did change the reference in the Tuva article.--Ëzhiki 19:25, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
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- Very good info! But the article says before 1992, it was "Gorno-Altai", is Gorno the same as Республика? --Menchi 02:45, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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to Menchi: Gorno means Upper.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.101.163.20 (talk • contribs) .
- Actually, it means "mountain". The reason for the name change was because "Altai" already means "Mountains of Gold", so they droped the "gorno-" part altogether ("mountainous mountains of gold" sounds horrible). And I have just noticed that the original question is a year and a half old...—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 20:42, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
