Talk:County

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The article is very brief about counties in medieval times (and also in Early Modern times, especially in the Holy Roman Empire) when counties rather were nearly-independent territories under the rulership of a count, see e.g. County of Holland, County of Toulouse, County of Barcelona, and the article does not say anything about how these medieval counties developed into the modern administrative term. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:03, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Old remark but still true. I don't see any other articles specifically about the historical evolution of counties either.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 10:32, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article lede sort of explains this matter, but it could perhaps be written more clearly. Basically, the short version is this: modern counties have no direct relationship to the mainland European medievsl counties. The word "county" was basically just borrowed into English from the mainland invaders, and began being used as a new term for the 'shires' that already existed in England. Thus, modern 'counties' came from 'shires' rather than from that which were originally called counties. 2600:1702:4960:1DE0:5D57:A2A:70F7:A033 (talk) 04:37, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the {{confusing}} template on the page because I did not understand what it was saying. If it's going to be reinstated, please make it more clear. Regards, MediaKill13 (talk) 08:26, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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There are two exactly same terms here on EN Wiki: This Latin County and Slavic Okrug. Should we merge these two? --Munja (talk) 21:03, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Canada's five oldest provinces – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island – are divided into counties." I removed the above. PEI is not one of Canada's five oldest provinces. It's seventh to join Canada. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shipman7 (talk • contribs) 02:16, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Shipman7: if that is the case, why wouldn't you simply revise it to state the following?

"Five of Canada's provinces – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island – are divided into counties."

Hwy43 (talk) 02:20, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The entry on 'county' in Australia appears to be incorrect. The term 'county council' appears to still be current as at http://hrcc.nsw.gov.au. If this is not the same as a 'county', fine, but something needs to be noted about this usage.

59.153.112.77 (talk) 01:40, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

the success of the country depends on it people essey 250 words 105.245.175.211 (talk) 06:35, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]