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[-] mathemachristian 3 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 23 hours ago
[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago
[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 days ago

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

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 33 points 2 days ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Even oooold New York was New Amsterdam.

Why they changed it, I can't say.

[-] AltheaHunter 1 points 1 day ago

people just liked it better that wayyyy

[-] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Us Greeks beg to differ.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago
[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

The image misspellet "Constantinople" as "Constanantinople"

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago

Constananananananantinople

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago

Constananananananabatmantinople

[-] happysplinter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I had a date in Constantinople...

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

They'll be waiting in Istanbul.

[-] Porcupirate@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

It’s nobody’s business but the Turks’

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I was hoping to see this comment.

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[-] majster@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago
[-] Shayeta@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago
[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago
[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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 3 points 1 day ago

NEEEEEERD!

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

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago

Someone should talk to TMBG about this.

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

They very clearly stated it was nobodies business but the Turks

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 5 points 2 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 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] MLM@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago
[-] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 day ago
[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Istanbulgaria.
Istanbulgaristan.

[-] wraekscadu@vargar.org 3 points 1 day ago

Ehhh naming stuff after individuals just sounds very icky to me

[-] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago
[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago
[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago
[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

~~Peking Duck~~ Beijing Duck

~~Chicken Kiev~~ Chicken Kyiv

[-] ytg@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

The university is still named that way

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day 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.

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

in finnish it's still "peking"

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

Same in Czech

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