What's interesting is that the name "Istanbul" is still Greek.
it developed in Turkish 16c. as a corruption of Greek phrase eis tan (ten) polin "in (or to) the city," which is how the local Greek population referred to it.
Yeah, i guess it's just one of those weird Euro things. Just like measuring things in deci/centilitres. When I lived in the UK everyone called it Beijing and measured everything in ml.
You can take your devs vult and shove it where the sun don't shine. You've shamelessly even named yourself after a colonizer that basically started the british mandate of palestine. Your kind has done unspeakable things in west asia and you will be remembered by history as people that were rotten to the core. Future generations will be baffled as to how humans could come to the stuff that your kind did.
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 35d
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 35d
The image misspellet "Constantinople" as "Constanantinople"
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 34d
Constananananananantinople
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 34d
Constananananananabatmantinople
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 47 pts · 35d
Been a long time gone, Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 36 pts · 35d
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 35d
Even oooold New York was New Amsterdam.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 35d
Why they changed it, I can't say.
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 35d
People just liked it better that way!
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
So take me back to Constantinople!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 35d
Aaaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^
aaaaaaaa^aaaaa^aaaaaaaaaarotrios@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Beat me too it.
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 35d
Us Greeks beg to differ.
Porcupirate@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 35d
It’s nobody’s business but the Turks’
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 35d
I was hoping to see this comment.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Aaaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^
aaaaaaaa^aaaaa^aaaaaaaaalaurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 35d
Just have to convince trump to rename it
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 35d
You know how camels are called humpies? Maybe he can name lickspittles trumpies
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
No, I'm not aware of this at all
Now I'm even more lost! But I really enjoyed hearing these words in my inner reading voice.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
you are now! spread the good word
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 35d
It's from a song by The Four Lads
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 35d
What's interesting is that the name "Istanbul" is still Greek.
BaroqBard@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 35d
NEEEEEERD!
.... actually I was rolling into the comments to say the same thing. Right on brother
Enkrod@feddit.org · 20 pts · 35d
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 35d
Why they changed it, I can't say. Maybe people just liked it better that way?
toynbee@piefed.social · 18 pts · 35d
Someone should talk to TMBG about this.
DokPsy@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 35d
They very clearly stated it was nobodies business but the Turks
toynbee@piefed.social · 7 pts · 35d
Yeah, but it seemed like they didn't really understand the reasoning behind it, so perhaps someone more authoritative should be consulted.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Perdóname but until you find a giant, no one is not authoritative than Those Who Might Be
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 35d
What makes you think I don't know any giants?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
The ones I know don't speak, um, human.
MLM@feddit.org · 15 pts · 35d
Byzanz
Egonallanon@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 35d
Byzantion.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 35d
Can't go back to Constantinople.
Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 35d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 35d
https://youtu.be/0XlO39kCQ-8
Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 35d
Miklagard!
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 35d
🫸 Beijing
👉 Peking
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 35d
Kinda bad comparison.
Beijing was always* beijing. Peking was just a european fever dream.
On the other hand
Constantinople was the offical name and got later renamed Istanbul.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 34d
Yeah, i guess it's just one of those weird Euro things. Just like measuring things in deci/centilitres. When I lived in the UK everyone called it Beijing and measured everything in ml.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 34d
Peking DuckBeijing DuckChicken KievChicken Kyivkuiskaaja@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 35d
in finnish it's still "peking"
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 34d
Same in Czech
ytg@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 34d
The university is still named that way
majster@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 35d
Carigrad
Shayeta@feddit.org · 2 pts · 34d
Miklagaard
happysplinter@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 35d
I had a date in Constantinople...
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 34d
They'll be waiting in Istanbul.
sunoc@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 4 pts · 35d
Stamboul
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
Stamboulmathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 34d
You can take your devs vult and shove it where the sun don't shine. You've shamelessly even named yourself after a colonizer that basically started the british mandate of palestine. Your kind has done unspeakable things in west asia and you will be remembered by history as people that were rotten to the core. Future generations will be baffled as to how humans could come to the stuff that your kind did.
wraekscadu@vargar.org · 3 pts · 35d
Ehhh naming stuff after individuals just sounds very icky to me
critical@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 35d
Tzarigrad
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 34d
Catstanbul.
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 34d
Oh my god, they're doing it!
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
Istanbulgaria.
Istanbulgaristan.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Miklagard
AppleTea@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 34d
I like Istanbul better that Constantine-vill