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A fact from Ponsa appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 April 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Peregrin Saxon was the first Bishop of Bosnia to reside in Bosnia since Ponsa was driven out by heretics a century earlier?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ponsa.

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Ponsa, Pousa, Ponza, or Povša

There seem to be more spellings of the man's name than information about his life. My instinct was to go with Ponsa because the Anglophone historian most frequently cited in this article used that spelling, and to put the others into brackets in the lead. What do you think, Norden1990? Surtsicna (talk) 17:06, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, I support Ponsa too. In his bulls, Pope Gregory called him with this name variant (source: Ternovácz 2017, p. 256.), so it is more widespread. In Hungarian charters, he mostly appears as "Pousa" (in modern orthography Pósa), which is a native, and by now a forgotten, variant of the name Paul, see another medieval Hungarian figures, e.g. Pousa, son of Sólyom and Pousa Bár-Kalán. Povša also derives from this. --Norden1990 (talk) 17:32, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]