Talk:Naxos Island

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Contents 1 Wrong historical event 2 Etymology of Naxos 3 Wrong? 4 Illicit Commercial Links

[edit] Wrong historical event

"In 502 BCE the inhabitants of Naxos rebelled against their masters in the Persian Empire; this revolt led to the larger Ionian Revolt, and then to the Persian War between Greece and Persia".

Up to 490 BC, Naxos was indepentent of Persian Empire. No revolt in 502 BC.

--IonnKorr 20:22, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology of Naxos

It is possible that the name "Naxos" is related, etymologically, with name "Nysa'.

Note: Nysa is the birth-city of god Dionysus.

--IonnKorr 21:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Actually... The idea that Dionysus is "Dio-" + "nysus" is just one of many loose ideas floating around aimlessly both online and in books that strangely managed to get published. Nice try, but we can't seriously morph *Nysa into Naxos without chucking linguistic science right out the window. Mr. Spock would tell you that you've built an assumption on another assumption. How illogical. --Glengordon01 00:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong?

The picture on the dukes of naxos is fishy the kingdom of Armenia was north of anatalia(Turkey) not west of antioch.--Jon T Bruinline 02:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

no - it's fine - the kingdom of Armenia has been larger still and further east and north of that shown on the map. It basically died with the crusader states. --5telios 15:37, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Illicit Commercial Links

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