[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14343) Data: Egyptian city list

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14343 >

On 2005-10-17, at 21.57, Jason Short wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14343 >
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>> [himasaram@xxxxxxxx - Sat Oct 15 18:59:28 2005]:
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>> The Egyptian city list is only featuring cities from very late
>> antiquity and does not fit the legend nor the leader list.
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>> Here's a reworked city list. I retained the basic order of cities, but
>> reverted to their ancient names. Cities founded by Greeks or Romans
>> were moved to the bottom of the list, and a few more major cities 
>> added
>> in the middle.
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> No doubt the egyption nation was originally made based on the ancient
> civilization, taken from civ2.  Egypt is a real problem case because
> it's existed for about 5,000 years, and practically none of the city
> names would be the same between modern and ancient (3000-1000 BC) city
> lists.  I'm not sure what to do except I think having it in the ancient
> list is more important.
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> -jason
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In the Freeciv context, Egypt 'lost' the game in 332 when it was 
militarily conquered by Alexander the Great. I think pre-Alexander city 
names for ancient Egyptian nation is most fitting, as this patch does.

We could make separate late antiquity "Ptolemaic" and modern "Arabic" 
Egyptian nations, but coming up with good names for them is an issue. 
For a modern Egyptian nation, we could use the Arabic term for the 
country: "Misr", "Misran" etc..

Daniel