Talk:Mittelland Canal

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Name?

Does this canal really get called the "Midland" in English? I've never heard anything but the German name, "Mittellandkanal". Googling, I see the Columbia Encyclopedia uses "Midland Canal", but other hits are to webpages relating to canals in the English Midlands.
—wwoods 01:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To get rid of the English Midlands and of German language hits, I added the search term Saxony (for Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, two of the states it runs through). The results are Mittellandkanal 1120 and Midland Canal 428. I also prefer Mittellandkanal (because I associate Midland more with Birmingham than with this canal), but I'm not a native speaker (neither English nor German). Markussep ^Talk 16:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I plead for removing of " also known as the Midland Canal". "Midlands" is a geographical region in England, but its literally German translation gives "Mittelland", and this only refers to the Swiss region Mittelland. The German word "Mittellandkanal" might be written, if you want, as "Mittel-Landkanal", that is a canal right through the middle of the land, as you see on the geographical map, but never as "Mittelland-Kanal", what would be a canal through the Mittelland (analogue to "Midland"), because there is no German region with that name. The ordinary English term "Mittelland Canal" (better would have been "Middle Land Canal") should not be replaced or added by a name, that refers to a certain region. --Dioskorides (talk) 22:31, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Origin

Over what time period was this canal created? 198.119.56.43 (talk) 18:01, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See this link in German: WSA-Minden, translated here. The translation has some errors, but you'll get the idea. It was started in 1906, Hanover was reached in 1916, and Magdeburg was reached in 1938. The final part, the canal bridge over the Elbe, was only completed in 2003. Markussep ^Talk 21:14, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved to Mittelland Canal. Favonian (talk) 09:11, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mittellandkanal → Mittelland Canal – This is the name used in reliable sources e.g. Dickinson (1964) and Elkins (1972). It also conforms to Wiki naming practice for German canals. Bermicourt (talk) 06:28, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Here is Britannica. Kauffner (talk) 05:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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