Talk:Turku Castle

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I changed the names of castellans from "Finnified" forms to the original Swedish names, as the "Finnified" names are utterly inauthentic 19th century reconstructions, most of these men were active in Sweden too, and the Swedish names are used in Swedish, English and nowadays often in Finnish historiography as well.130.234.75.164 12:28, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

mudkip[edit]

Was water pokémon REALLY medieval castellans in Turku castle in 15th century? --Have a nice day. Running 01:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seems plausible. After all, it's been there for months. 62.142.161.252 (talk) 08:56, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:Turkucastle edit.jpg to appear as POTD[edit]

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Turkucastle edit.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on March 6, 2013. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2013-03-06. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:12, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Turku Castle is a monument located in Turku, Finland. Initially intended as a military fortress, construction on the castle began in the 13th century. It was destroyed and rebuilt several times and now houses a museum, church, restaurants, and banquet hall.Photograph: Otto Jula

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Monument.[edit]

To describe this firstly as a "monument" is very poor English. A monument is a structure that memorialises some important person or event or cause. This Turku Castle is a building, or a castle, or a fortification. It is not a monument. It is true that some very old structures and buildings, which are not monuments, attain the status generally of a "monument" to some bygone age or ancient historical purpose, but that is a secondary, adaptive, purpose and not the original purpose. This building is first and foremost a castle, and a monument only in a secondary sense.Eregli bob (talk) 04:31, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Monument has a range of meanings (the UK has scheduled monuments and the Netherlands rijksmonuments, neither of which cover just memorials), however in this case the wording needed some work. The opening sentence now reads "Turku Castle (Finnish: Turun linna, Swedish: Åbo slott) is a medieval building in the city of Turku in Finland." Nev1 (talk) 18:55, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]