Talk:Trajan's Wall

"Agger"

"Agger" is not a word. Does anyone know what was intended? - Jmabel | Talk 04:30, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

An Agger is an earthwork set against a wall to provide additional defense on the interior side.--Rjstott 04:42, 20 February 2006 (UTC) It is also a siege work created to allow passage over a wall!

Where exactly did this come from? 108.40.120.109 (talk) 17:08, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

"Medium"

In several places where "medium" made no sense I changed it to "average", assuming that was what was meant. But perhaps the more precise term "median" was meant? Clarification welcome. - Jmabel | Talk 04:30, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

i think average is better Anonimu 17:02, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Trajan's Wall?

The German Wikipedia article de:Trajanwall talks about a different wall, also at one point wrongly believed to have been built during the rule of Trajan which is located in southern Moldova. Which one is the right "Trajan's wall" then? Should this one and that one both go under that name? Balcer 18:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Nowadays it's called "Athanaric's Wall", as it could have been made by the Goths as part of the defence lines against the Huns. A reason why this could be true is that Ammianus Marcellinus talks about the Goths building a vallum and the dating appears to support this theory. bogdan 18:10, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Acutally there are three "Trajan's Walls" in the region, none built by Trajan. See ru:Трояновы валы. The third is in Ukraine, just north of Bukovina. Anonimu 18:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

It's funny, three "Trajan's walls" in three different countries, and Trajan build none of them. Anyway, I think all three should be mentioned in this article, even if only briefly, with appropriate links. Also, any political reasons for the choice of names, if such exist, should be added. Balcer 18:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Isn't there a Trajan's Wall in the Banat as well?

More information?

This sounds like a significant landmark/feature of these countries. I'm surprised there isn't more information available about how old they are, who built them, etc. Surely there must be explorations on the ruins? 21:27, 16 June 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.71.74 (talk)

WHAT THE F*CK IS THIS ?!

Hello dear Wikipedia community. Please excuse my "offensive" language in here, but while reading the article (only the introduction and first lines were enough to make me scratch my head) I asked myself what this article is talking about. I am not trying to come off as some kind of weird racist or I don't know what, extreme nationalist or idk, as some kind of asshole necessarily, BUT after checking most of the sources of these claims in the article I came to ask myself, who knows the history of Romanian ruines and historical sights and such better; ROMANIAN sources? Or BULGARIAN sources? Please, I'm saying this again and I don't want to come off as unencyclopedic or however you spell that or angry or something, but maybe Wikipedia should take a good look at itself and its editors and stop promoting politically motivated sources, views and formulations in almost ALL entries about/concerning/or mentioning Romanians, Romania, and history of Romania who in like 90% (I took a bet on this one) go AGAINST Romanian sources, while dealing with the history of this exact country. And let me ask you another question: Do you dear Wikipedia editors (people who do this a lot in their free time and who come here regularly to check and such) really believe that sources (books, magazines, archeological studies, etc.) from in most time not even POST-communist but sources coming DIRECTLY from the communist era countries like Bulgaria, USSR, Yugoslavia etc. really should be taken as a reliable source for stuff from Romanian history? I don't even necessarily mean stuff like concrete dates or historical battles or I don't know, certain events that are mentioned in these works but the general undertone seems to have been taken directly from the communist manual.

If for some reason you are not capable or willing to understand what I am trying to say specifically with this last remark I made there, then maybe you should lay back and let other editors who have more historical knowledge help with these articles.

This is what I had to say, I felt like I had to get this load off and would be interested if and/or what kind of response this talk page entry will get ! Oh and excuse me again for the offensive language in my title - I was fully aware of how I formualated it! Have a nice day. --79.246.44.125 (talk) 16:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Dear anonymous reader, this article generally represents the established academic view on the topic. It does surely need improvement (not in the least in the sourcing) in order to fit Wikipedia's good article criteria, but it is not in disagreement with current knowledge on the topic. While it may not be readily apparent, the main source of the article is actually Romanian (Bitoleanu&Radulescu, 1979). The "introduction" (probably you refer to the lead) is also referenced to a 2006 source by an Italian academic, published in a volume edited by a noted Romanian medievalist and put out by a reputable publisher from "capitalist" Belgium. It certainly does not conform to the romantic Romanian view of the walls as a work of Trajan ( opinion so utterly disproven that any respectable Romanian historian discussing the structures starts by rejecting this myth). It may also be on some points closer to the "Bulgarian" POV, as in casting doubts on the implausible story of Byzantines preserving an enclave in Dobrudja, building a rampart to protect the villages and townlets therein from the Bulgarians holding Moesia, and failing to mention such an impressing feat in any of their fairly detailed accounts of their struggle against the Bulgarians. You may actually want to check by yourself the very informative study of Squatriti, the article about the stone dyke by Curta ( unfortunately not referenced here, but it is available freely on the web), as well as Bitoleanu&Radulescu 1979 and Barnea&Stefanescu Din istoria Dobrogei vol 3, 1971. For a recent overview of the Bulgarian point of view, check Bozhinov&Gyuzelev Istorija na Dobrudzha, vol 2, 2004. Hope this information will be of help. Anonimu (talk) 23:59, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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