Talk:Giurgiu Clocktower
Add topicLatest comment: 10 months ago by Arminden in topic Removed unsourced, prob. wrong claims
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Removed unsourced, prob. wrong claims
[edit]About the Ottoman clocktower:
- "... similar to the guet royal [wikilinked to Royal Watch ] and guet bourgeois ("burgess watch") established in France, which lasted until the 18th century."
Unsourced (i.e. sourced to wrong ref), most likely OR (original research), and probably wrong, too.
- It was inserted in paragraph sourced on paper by A. Nicolae, which didn't contain anything on guet or France.
- Royal Watch was a police unit, not a tower. They may have used watch towers (or not), but if they did, that's such an insignificant detail that the enWiki art. doesn't even contain the word tower.
- Unclear what "lasted until the 18th century": the guet units, or the role of this tower as fire lookout?
I've added "(compare with Tour du Guet)" out of courtesy, but w/o much conviction and will remove it now, as it's a rather arbitrary comparison (13th century there, late 17th here). No "guet" then in the end. Arminden (talk) 11:08, 27 September 2025 (UTC)