Talk:The Deluge
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AAMoF the term (Potop szwedzki in Polish) is used mostly as a synonym to First Northern War, other minor conflicts at that time have their own names. Therefore this article seems wrong... What do we do? Halibutt 08:00, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
- Well, no. I've seen in some of books that whole series of events is referred as "Potop" (not "Potop szwedzki"). In strict sense you are right, of course. If googling you will find a lot of references to "Deluge" starting with 1648, but in Polish in google you will indeed find mostly "Potop szwedzki". SOme historians just tend to nickname "potop" (as in "epoka potopu", doba "potopu") the whole decade dividing history of Poland in two parts. Szopen 09:16, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
In English, the term "The Deluge" would most commonly refer to the Great Flood, or something like that, and not to an event in Polish history. I think we need to move this to The Deluge (Polish history) and make this redirect to Deluge. john k 19:51, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
