Why does the name "Constantinople" hits so fucking hard? "Istanbul" sounds like some irrelevant "x-stan" country bordering Russia.
>>215380983bugs bunny cartoons
>>215380983Constantinople was a name given by great people Istanbul is literally dumb peasant speak
Why are christians pathetic faggots who always lose?
>>215381084The big question is why the Entente powers didn't kick the turks out after WW1
>>215380983Greek just is a cool sounding language
>>215381102They tried unsuccessfully
>>215380983Byzantium hits harder fr no cap
Gentle reminder that tradcaths rape millions of kids worldwide >330K in France alone
>>215380983retarded ai slop with minarets and that spire-sphere thing muslims put at the top of mosque domes
>>215381102we fucked them in the ass and sent them back to where they came from
>>215381632this way you lost hundreds of thousands of Greeks who were your intellectual and economic eliteif Turkey's coastal areas were still majority Greek, Turkey would be as rich as Germany now
Who cares
>>215381654There would be constant ethnic tension and the greeks could try what they tried at the end of WW1 again but with more western support. I don’t like many of Ataturks reforms but he did good in that case.
>>215381102Because ecumenical unity is an American retardation pushed by Mutts. There is literally no difference between Orthodoxy and Islam. So Brits were like: "No way these crypto Russian will be allowed to control the straits."
>>215381654>Polish nationalits ethnically cleanse people:(>Turkish nationalists ethnically cleanse people:)
>>215381790Germans in Poland were occupants while Greeks in Turkey were the original natives>>215381745>There would be constant ethnic tensionWhy would they be, Greeks would just have autonomy within their millets, they wouldn't interfere with Turks too much
>>215381867The christians didn’t want to live under the millet system anymore, they wanted to live in their own ethno states. That’s one of the reasons the ottoman empire fell apart.
Turks are just incredibly insecure people. Nooo our country isn't named after a bird it's actually Türkiye!!!
>>215381867Germans are still occupying Slavic land to this day
istanbul is also just a corruption of the Greek "eis ten polis"
>The name İstanbul (Ottoman Turkish: استانبول; pronounced [ɯsˈtambuɫ] or colloquially [isˈtanbuɫ] ) is commonly held to derive from the Medieval Greek phrase eis tḕn Pólin (εἰς τὴν Πόλιν, pronounced [is tim ˈbolin]), literally "to the city",[28] and is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks. Genuinely retarded. Imagine if Canadians were to conquer New York and rename it to "the Big Apple"
It's Byzantium actually
>>215381102Dont think there was much appetite for war in 1918
>>215380983Istanbul is Turkified but it's retained its Greek core. It sounds fine.
>>215381867
>>215382050there is also a possibility that the "a" in instabul derives from the tsakonian dialect that was spoken in the propontis, which would render the phrase as εις ταν πολαν (istambolan)
>>215381084You are alive because we let you live
>>215382164they left voluntarily so they have no claim to this place
>>215381134>>215381066istanbul is etymologically a greek word you retards
>>215381184This.I do not care about Roman or Turk larpers.
>>215384047>miklagard
I really cant be fucked into giving a damn about byzantine empire honestly. Talk to me about ancient greece if you want to have a chance to make me sperg out.
>muh gayzantiumBORING.
>>215380983>>215384047It's Tsargrad.
>>215381084Christians btfo the byzantines though. Real Christians.
>>215381102Turks and Germans were already "frens"
