Is it İstanbul or Constantinople?

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Is it İstanbul or Constantinople?#13261680

By Aekos - 08 Dec 2009 20:14

- 08 Dec 2009 20:14 #13261680

What's the proper name of the city? It is Constantinople, or should it really be Istanbul?

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By Captain Sam - 08 Dec 2009 20:21

- 08 Dec 2009 20:21 #13261687

Constantinople/Byzantium. I'm biased.
I have a great appreciation for Greek history, and I also have contempt for the nation of Turkey.

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By Potemkin - 08 Dec 2009 20:42

- 08 Dec 2009 20:42 #13261700

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQ-wjDH4F4

I think that answers all your questions.

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)

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By eloweeth - 08 Dec 2009 21:17

- 08 Dec 2009 21:17 #13261734

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
:music:

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By The Immortal Goon - 08 Dec 2009 21:19

- 08 Dec 2009 21:19 #13261744

Byzantium

Just to be contrary.

Alis Volat Propriis; Tiocfaidh ár lá; Proletarier Aller Länder, Vereinigt Euch!

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By Nets - 08 Dec 2009 21:21

- 08 Dec 2009 21:21 #13261748

Byzantium.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly.
His name was spessul olymmian

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By Red_Army - 08 Dec 2009 21:37

- 08 Dec 2009 21:37 #13261765

Istanbul, and its nobody's business but the Turks, as Potemkin has pointed out

edit: wrote Demo, meant Potemkin :?:

Last edited by Red_Army on 08 Dec 2009 23:33, edited 1 time in total.

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By Mazhi - 08 Dec 2009 21:37

- 08 Dec 2009 21:37 #13261766

Carigrad

"Nations ... as an inherent political destiny, are a myth. Nationalism, which sometimes takes preexisting cultures and turns them into nations, sometimes invents them, and often obliterates preexisting cultures: that is a reality." - E. Gellner

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By Le Rouge - 08 Dec 2009 21:45

- 08 Dec 2009 21:45 #13261774

*checks what century it is*
Istanbul.

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By Parvus - 08 Dec 2009 22:08

- 08 Dec 2009 22:08 #13261789

Istanbul.

--
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By Potemkin - 08 Dec 2009 22:15

- 08 Dec 2009 22:15 #13261797

Istanbul

"Location: Constantinople" :eh:

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)

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By Varilion - 08 Dec 2009 22:49

- 08 Dec 2009 22:49 #13261837

For me it will always be Byzantium... the city of the Basileus, the Golden Horn, and the Constantine Wall.

.... but turks can call their city as they prefer, idk.

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By Doomhammer - 08 Dec 2009 23:12

- 08 Dec 2009 23:12 #13261860

"Konstantinniye" was the proper name used until 1930. I certainly wouldn't mind it being used still. It reflects the imperial history of the city and its Greek-Roman-Ottoman heritage.

Regardless: Meh. All three names (Byzantium, Konstantinniye, Istanpolis ) are valid as they are all derived from Greek/Roman. It doesn't matter.

I still picked "Istanpolis " or "İstanbul", simply to piss Sam and Aekos off.

In fact "Tsarigrad" (or "Carigrad" as Mazhi said) is the only objectionable name so far.