Nah, they were mostly broken up by truces between periods of relatively intense fighting lasting from two to ten years or so. I suppose the only one that comes close would be the last one, from 602 to 628.
Longest war?
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Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. And yes, I don't think it really counts.
Well, the Isle of Scilly wasn't specifically an entity, so was it really a war on the Isle itself? I would've thought that it was a war on the Royalist forces, and not the locality.
According to Wikipedia, the longest war (sourced, though not well) lasted from 149 BC to AD 1985, between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
Now that's just plain silly...
aronnax
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Well for Carthage that easy, its Tunisia.
For Rome, its either the Greeks, the Germans, the Turks, the Russians or the Italians. Lets get all of them to sign a treaty.
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Umm no, read my first post in this thread.
The wikipedia people are talking about technicalities, because the general surrendered and the city was occupied, but the government of Carthage did not officially sign a peace treaty or something like that. In essence, because they didn't end the war according to how our modern notions think a war should end.
Frankly, the mayors of Carthage and Rome are the only semi-legitimate representations of these classical powers (and I mean semi with heavy emphasis). Tunisia has little to do with ancient Carthage except for controlling some of the same territory.
If signatures on an official treaty are required, then we can probably find some little backwater Mesopotamian town that got squashed by Sargon and didn't a modern peace treaty. Doesn't really contribute to the intended purpose of the thread, though.
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Sounds more like a game of Civ:Revolutions.
Wikipedia is as pathetic as the people who contribute to it.
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Tunisia has about as much relation to the Carthaginians as Ukraine has to the Sarmatians.
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Indeed, the technicalities being argued in Wikipedia over the length of war before a peace treaty occurs is a stupid waste of time and imposition of modern mentalities on things of the past.
Like Antilogic's example, the best candidate under those technicalities for the longest war would be the Bingo Bango Bongo tribe throwing stones at the Mbinguneyetuyetu tribe in 10,000 BC across the Rhine. So their successor states are obviously France and Germany
Yeah, governments these days don't cease to exist anymore. Funny how that works.
It is simply a listing of pointless trivia.
I will always defend wikipedia as a casual source of information. It has its flaws, and if the issue is controversial stay the hell away from it, but in general it is accurate enough for the average person wanting to know a bit about something or check some facts. The next best option for the average person sitting at their computer, google, is a lot worse (sure it could link you to a good website, but more likely to a copy and pasted wikipedia article).
I will always defend wikipedia as a casual source of information. It has its flaws, and if the issue is controversial stay the hell away from it, but in general it is accurate enough for the average person wanting to know a bit about something or check some facts. The next best option for the average person sitting at their computer, google, is a lot worse (sure it could link you to a good website, but more likely to a copy and pasted wikipedia article).
It is simply a listing of pointless trivia.
I will always defend wikipedia as a casual source of information. It has its flaws, and if the issue is controversial stay the hell away from it, but in general it is accurate enough for the average person wanting to know a bit about something or check some facts. The next best option for the average person sitting at their computer, google, is a lot worse (sure it could link you to a good website, but more likely to a copy and pasted wikipedia article).
I will always defend wikipedia as a casual source of information. It has its flaws, and if the issue is controversial stay the hell away from it, but in general it is accurate enough for the average person wanting to know a bit about something or check some facts. The next best option for the average person sitting at their computer, google, is a lot worse (sure it could link you to a good website, but more likely to a copy and pasted wikipedia article).
That had no citation, so I didn't count it. 'Cause the citation that the one I suggested was really credible and reliable.
My point in suggesting that war was to show that the war between the Netherlands and the Isle of Scilly doesn't really count. They are both counted as being long wars between localities, when they were wars between regimes.
aronnax
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I was being sarcastic. If you did not realise I list Rome with 5 successors...
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