[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11382) Data: Byzantine nation

["nmav@xxxxxxxxxx" <nmav@xxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11382 >

On Sun 16 Jul 2006 13:23, Egor Vyscrebentsov wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11382 >
>
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:13:31 -0700
>
> nmav@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Fri 14 Jul 2006 15:46, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> > > New version of patch, using the name forms found in the 'Demotic
> > > Greek' column of above linked Wikipedia article.
> > > Will have to remove the diacritics before committing though.
> >
> > I updated the patch to remove the diacritics and use the latin
> > letters that correspond to today's accents.
>
> + "Sevastoupoli",             ; Sevastopol
>
> Hm, I always thought that Sevastopol was founded in the end of 18th
> century... Or there was another Sevastopol?
> (IIRC, there was a settlement Ahtiar (Krym's tatars) before at
> place where Sevastopol was found, and Khersones before Ahtiar.)

You are right. It seems the map I used was using the new name for the 
city.The right name at that time was Chersonesus (latin) or Chersonisos 
(greek).

> PS What about Bospor (Kerch), Sugdea (Sudak) and Feodosia?
> (Of course there are mispellings - backtranscryption from cyrillic-)

I didn't know these cities. The greek names would be Bosporos (or maybe 
Vosporos) Sougdeia, and Feodosia... 

regards,
Nikos