>Let's rename Constaninople (greek word) to Istanbul (another greek word)What was the point of this?
>>18347069To troll you into thinking it matters.
so we can rename it back
We should rename it Nova Roma
>>18347069>city of Constantineit would be like if germans didnt change the name of stalingrad or leningrad if they had won
>>18347084This completely ignores that they renamed it to Istanbul like 500 years after conquering it
>>18347111Because Turkey wasn't turkish ethnostate before 1922. Turkey, to say, is the only country in the world, which succefully commited ethnic cleansing - from greeks and armenians.
>>18347069It was not intentional. They ended up messing up most of the names on their pass west, with other places like Izmir too.
>>18347069Prior to Ataturk, the city was still called constantinople, but the turkish version of it (Konstantiniyye)>>18347128Other countries did it and got away with it too, they just didn't make a huge deal about it (See Serbs from Croatia)>>18347149Generally the logic was to create new Turkish names out of places that didn't have one or were derived from other languages, sometimes changing it slighty so it's a new word but still similar to the old name (For example, Diyarbekir becomes Diyarbakir)
"Istanbul" means "In the city" as in "In the city of Constantinople". Its just a Unintentional Moniker
>>18347111It was called Istanbul colloquially for much longer than that
>>18347069That's nobody's business but the Turks
>>18347366That song was the first time I learned about Constantinople
>>18347069Humiliation ritual.
>>18347084Probably would have changed Leningrad back to Sankt Petersburg and Stalingrad to Hitlerstadt or something
>>18347069Nation building requires deliberately doing stupid shit to demoralize the subsection of your population with a functioning brain, so they’ll get the message that the people in power aren’t reasonable, and need to be both feared and taken seriously.
