Talk:Duchy of Gaeta

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[edit] Edit war

I reverted Gennarous' edits because:

1. "Byzantine power lagged in the Mediterranean and the peninsula thanks to Lombard and Saracen incursions" is replaced with "Byzantine power lagged in the Mediterranean as the Eastern Roman Empire began to gradually lose influence in the West": the latter is less informative b/c it does not tell us how or why the Byz. emp. lost influence.
2. the adjective Muslim is removed without apparent reason in one place, once more leaving the reader less informed
3. a link to Barbary pirates is used with reference to a period 500 years too early

Srnec (talk) 05:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

The first phrase also seems to be bit redundant. It is like asserting that Byzantine influence diminished because it diminished. Dimadick (talk) 07:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)