Talk:Marada arcanum

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Etymology

Marada in Aramiac and even in Arabic means the rebels I am not sure why its not mentioned in the article?

It has nothing to do with the Greeks and I doubt a Banu Murad is related to this since most the Marada were Arameans and Ghassanids

Merge

why have the original article been deleted? moderators please pay attention to this, might be vandalism attempt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.25.144.153 (talk) 11:55, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest that we merge Mardites and Marda articles into one article. This group is disputed, there has been several theories to explain their origin, theories such as:

Aramic origin.
Greek origin.
Arab (Banu Murad) origin.
and other ethnic origins.--Aziz1005 12:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I do not oppose a merge, but first I'd like to see some more sources. As both articles are at the moment, not much can be determined from them and what's what. — Aššur-bāni-apli (talk · contribs) 18:36, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think a merge is prudent. The Mardaites are an ethnic group of admittedly disputed origin. The Marada were a group of self-governing communities set up by the Mardaites and others. Convention on WP is to separate articles about countries and regions from articles about people: hence German people/Germany, Bashkirs/Bashkortostan, etc. Briangotts (Contrib) 20:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merged... Name confusion only occurs in western languages as neither Syriac nor Arabic differentiate between the terms Maradites and Marada.--Rafy talk 19:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]