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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.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 47 points 3 days ago

Been a long time gone, Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works?

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 36 points 3 days ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Even oooold New York was New Amsterdam.

Why they changed it, I can't say.

[-] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 9 points 2 days ago

People just liked it better that way!

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

So take me back to Constantinople!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Aaaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^~aaaaaaaa~^aaaaa^aaaaaaaaa

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago
[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

The image misspellet "Constantinople" as "Constanantinople"

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Constananananananantinople

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Constananananananabatmantinople

[-] Porcupirate@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

It’s nobody’s business but the Turks’

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Aaaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^aaaaaaa^~aaaaaaaa~^aaaaa^aaaaaaaaa

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 days ago
[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] BaroqBard@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

NEEEEEERD!

.... actually I was rolling into the comments to say the same thing. Right on brother

[-] majster@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago
[-] Shayeta@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago
[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 20 points 3 days ago
[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Why they changed it, I can't say. Maybe people just liked it better that way?

[-] happysplinter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I had a date in Constantinople...

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

They'll be waiting in Istanbul.

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago

Someone should talk to TMBG about this.

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

They very clearly stated it was nobodies business but the Turks

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

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 points 2 days ago

Perdóname but until you find a giant, no one is not authoritative than Those Who Might Be

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

What makes you think I don't know any giants?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The ones I know don't speak, um, human.

[-] MLM@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago
[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 3 days ago

Can't go back to Constantinople.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Istanbulgaria.
Istanbulgaristan.

[-] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 6 points 2 days ago
[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I like Istanbul better that Constantine-vill

[-] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 8 points 3 days ago
[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago
[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

~~Peking Duck~~ Beijing Duck

~~Chicken Kiev~~ Chicken Kyiv

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

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 points 1 day 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.

[-] ytg@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

The university is still named that way

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[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago
[-] wraekscadu@vargar.org 3 points 3 days ago

Ehhh naming stuff after individuals just sounds very icky to me

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