▲ 296 ▼ Constantinople sounds way cooler tbh (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 month ago by laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 58 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
