Ehhh naming stuff after individuals just sounds very icky to me
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.
Even oooold New York was New Amsterdam.
Us Greeks beg to differ.
It’s nobody’s business but the Turks’
I was hoping to see this comment.
Just have to convince trump to rename it
It’s from a song by The Four Lads
🫸 Beijing
👉 Peking
Why they changed it, I can’t say. Maybe people just liked it better that way?
Someone should talk to TMBG about this.
They very clearly stated it was nobodies business but the Turks
Yeah, but it seemed like they didn’t really understand the reasoning behind it, so perhaps someone more authoritative should be consulted.
What’s interesting is that 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.
Byzanz
Byzantion.
Stamboul
Tzarigrad
