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on the other hand arises suspicion, especially since it is conveniently without page numbers and has been dropped during the "translation" process to be replaced by an
English source where this battle is not mentioned, all of which are indications of something fishy going on. In addition, it claims that the battle was between the Seljuks under Qutalmish, which is incorrect, and provides exact army numbers, which AFAIK are entirely fictitious. Hence the basic premise of the article ("18,000 Seljuks under Qutalmish defeat 25,000 Byzantines-Armenians-Georgians under Constantine IX Monomachos at Dvin") is wrong. There was a Byzantine battle near Dvin in 1045, which you've quoted above; it was not against Qutalmish or another Seljuk general, but against the Shaddadid Shavur; it did not feature Constantine IX Monomachos, but Constantine the Alan; there are no exact numbers for the troops involved; and it was far less of a battle and more of a failed attempt at siege. I stand by my belief that the aim of this article is to deliberately mislead/falsify the historical event (the source change and the invented numbers clinch the argument for me), and hence the proper response is to delete it per the spirit of
571:(of which i am the principal author). Whatever sources there are have been used there, and there is nothing whatsoever even remotely similar to what the article proposes... The sources of the Turkish page are laughable, being without page references, and the "article" itself is even more so, merely rehashing the contents of the infobox.
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Perhaps the "nothing whatsoever even remotely similar" comment I made above was excessive, but the point is the same: this article is bogus. Now, the source of the
Turkish article is not bunk; I don't have access to it, but I can believe it is a relatively reliable academic source. The way it is used
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Respectfully, no. The "Battle of Divin" doesn't exist. The "Battle of Dvin" does, if we agree we should name it thus. If you want a stub for the latter fine, but why on earth should we keep the former? I understand you want to "fix" the problem, but in my view, the best thing is to purge the one and
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Armenian army under the command of Vahram Pahlawuni, and Liparit Orbelean all participated. Faced with this united force, Abu'l-Aswar had recourse to the stratagem of opening the irrigation canals and flooded the fertile vineyards stretching around the walls of Dwin. The
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No, and that is what my edit summary comment was about: don't edit something if you are not certain about it. The
Byzantines clashed with Shavur in 1045 (for which there are no details enough for a stand-alone article), and with the Seljuks for the first time in 1048, and not in Dvin.
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You may be right in this case about the veracity of this article, but, in general, it's not only reasonable, but useful, for somebody who translates an article to seek sources in the destination language to replace the ones in the source language.
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I carried out the above program and moved the page. "Divin" is the
Turkish word for Dvin, and apparently arose from a mistake in translation. This might make sense as a redirect, or the redirect can be deleted if you like.
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I reverted your removal of the sources - which I stole from your article above. Doesn't this describe the battle that this article is supposed to be about? Please correct me if I'm wrong. --
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