Talk:Deyrülzafarân Monastery

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[edit] Correct name

I know that the article title is the correct official Syriac name of the monastery, but it is almost always referred to as Dayr al-Za`faran (or some variant spelling). Does anyone have any thoughts about which is better for the article title: the official name or the common name? --Gareth Hughes 21:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I moved it. I conducted a Google test, Dayro d-Mor Hananyo returns 120 hits but Deyrülzafarân returns 970. Deyrülzafarân is more common in the English language. More importantly, the web-site of the monastery itself refers to it as Deyrülzafarân. Baristarim 08:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)