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/
As a colorblind person, this is really hard to grok.
What about Byzantium?
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’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.
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.
I can’t believe Istanbul actually is not Constantinople.
(Not that it’s any of my business…)
The rest of Turkey’s a lot smaller than I expected
you beat me to it
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” …
I recently learned that Istanbul is actually a Greek based mashup word for “the city”
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 🤔
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.
I only recently learned that Budapest was originally two separate cities on opposite sides of a river named Buda and Pest.
Examples of this in the cities of Scotland that we can actually trace the etymologies of:
- Perth: “Copse”. Perth is in a forested area
- Aberdeen: “Mouth of Devona’s river”. Devona was an old Celtic goddess, and Aberdeen actually lies between the mouths of two rivers named for her
- Inverness: “Mouth of the roaring river”. Inver- derives from the Gaelic branch of the Celtic languages, whereas Aber- comes from the Brythonic branch. It’s at the mouth of the river Ness, which is one of the fastest-discharging rivers in the UK
- Glasgow: “green hollow”. “Hollow” here is in the sense of a small valley. Glasgow is one of the rainiest cities in Europe and also has a remarkably temperate climate for being at the same latitude as Moscow, so it probably was very green before it became a city
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.
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
