Talk:Zhetysu

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[edit] Move to "Semirechie"

I think this would be a better title for the page, as it is the standard transliteration used for "Семиречье". "Semiryechye" is an archaic form which is misleading both as to spelling and as to pronunciation. Sikandarji 13:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Done. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 20:23, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

The original name of that rigion is JETISU thats JETI means seven and SU a water, personally I cannot understand one thing, why topographic names of exusssr should converted from russian lamguage?

Because those are the versions that are most familiar in English. I'm afraid that Jetisu is far too obscure. See Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Use_common_names_of_persons_and_things. It is the same reason that we refer to Deutschland as Germany, and to Rossiya as Russia. Central Asia came to be known in the English-speaking world largely through Russian sources, hence these are the names which have stuck. Sikandarji 22:21, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

No, actually "Semirechie" is nowadays more obscure than Zhetisu. Compare Google results for Zhetisu (3,020) with Semirechie (2,510). Zhetisu is the current official designation for the area within Kazakhstan. And besides that, we should use the historically correct Kazakh toponym Zhetisu as the primary title for this article because Zhetisu was important to the establishment of the Kazakh Khanate and to the ethnogenesis of the Kazakh nation centuries before the Russians appeared in the area.

Sorry, I had to move this back per WP:RUS, which is a Russian romanization policy used by Wikipedia. I should also note that there is no such thing as "standard transliteration" (which was the main WP:RM reason).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:22, 15 January 2007 (UTC)