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Unknown source, just found it on Facebook and last trace I found is this Reddit post but it isn't marked as OC: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/gmky0e/the_difference_between_constantinople_city_of/
Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
So if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.
I hope this helps any single people.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
I hope this helps some people on first dates.
If you have a date in Constantinople, I doubt they are still waiting unless you hurry very hard
A date in Constantinople:
Hate to be the one who breaks it to you but this is, well, beyond hurrying
Maybe, but you have to remember that even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say.
That's nobody's business but the Turks
I saw exactly this comment under the Facebook post I mentioned in the description. And I'm afraid to ask but - is it a nationalistic thing or is it a joke I'm not getting?
It's a song reference.
An old one, but it stays in circulation for some reason even among younger folks. It's the one already linked by someone else, by they might be giants
It was in Umbrella Academy, which probably introduced it to a lot of younger folks who otherwise wouldn't have heard it
thanks, I was wondering from where I discovered it
for some reason
Because it’s a great song? Right up there with Happy Birthday
Word :)
Its been in Just Dance
I recently learned that Istanbul is actually a Greek based mashup word for "in the city"
If you look deep enough, pretty much every city's name is actually some banale description of the location or some guy who was relevant to it's founding.
Examples of this in the cities of Scotland that we can actually trace the etymologies of:
isn't aberdeen even simpler? it literally has the river Dee running through it, aber-dee-n
Yes and no. Both of the major rivers at Aberdeen — the Don and the Dee — are derived from the name of Devona. The original settlement of Aberdeen was around the Don rather than the Dee. The bit around the Dee is "New Aberdeen" (or at least, it was "new" in the 12th century). While the Dee > Deen connection is an intuitive one, Don > Deen also keeps the consonants consistent
But also, it felt worthwhile to dig into what the names within each name meant too, which is why I gave "mouth of the roaring river" instead of "mouth of the Ness"
I only recently learned that Budapest was originally two separate cities on opposite sides of a river named Buda and Pest.
The rivers here are names of colors.
Actually, it likely means "in/to/into Constantinople" (p. 240), and Constantinople itself is named after Constantine the Great.
So is Al-Madinah (literally 'The City') in KSA.
Makes me wish I could register “the pen” as a trademark or something and start selling pens under that name. I wonder if that also makes it impossible for anyone ever find this brand online.
Technically, Al-Madinah is shortened for Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, which means The Luminous City.
So maybe you could sell 'the luminous pen' instead 🤔
That would also make SEO so much easier.
The rest of Turkey’s a lot smaller than I expected
you beat me to it
I can't believe Istanbul actually is not Constantinople.
(Not that it's any of my business..)
What's the difference between the city of Istanbul and Istanbul? Is it like a regional state with the same name that the city lies within?
Yes, from what I understood, the "Istanbul" is a state.
I was trying to find that facebook post where people explained it but Facebook just says "fuck you, you saw it, there's no way to get it back". I can't believe they went away with this "feature" ...
It's Miklagard (old Norse name for the city)
"Gard"means wall/fence and is incidentally where you get gorod in Russian/Slavic languages I think.
this confused me since "gård" absolutely does not have the meaning of fence/wall in modern swedish, and looking at wiktionary it seems in ancient norse it only slightly had that meaning, with other meanings being the more sensible to me "city", "region", and "yard".
The word gard still also means fence in Norwegian. Still in use i the words "Skigard" (using the original meaning of the word ski as wood split lengthwise) and "steingard".
Also in the word "manngard" as a line of people moving forward when searching for something or someone.
It also means the word gård.
Also where you get "yard" in English
What about Byzantium?
All I see is two people kissing
Constantinople looks like a nipple. I like it
Constantinipple was right there, chief
Now it's Istanipple not Constantinipple.
Its gonna get the works
It's crazy what you find out about a city's name if you look into it.
As a colorblind person, this is really hard to grok.
grok
Understand (something) intuitively or by empathy.
Thank you, Commander Data.
This is outdated, its way bigger now, especially in the east
There is an office district, and villas being built
Also, a highway was made to connect land in a flat spot near the middle of the peninsula where urban developers for some reason made a second city there