Talk:Harem, Syria

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I guess the castle might deserve more space of its own, separately from the town. Arminden (talk) 09:16, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The castle entered history as the Harim Castle (see for instance the article on the Battle of Harim). 'Harem' is a common spelling for... harem, a Muslim set of wifes and their quarters inside the house. The Assad Baathist dictators, like all nationalist dictators, have a tendency to rename sites with well-established European names & spellings. Is there a good reason to go along with them? Arabic vowels, like most Semitic vowels, can hardly ever be correctly reproduced by Latin vowels, so it might just be a Baathist mannerism, irrelevant to us here, but what do I know. Anyway, on Wikipedia recognoscibility does bear some weight in picking article names, and in those terms harem means harem and Harim is a castle. Arminden (talk) 09:25, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]