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...maternal-organisational-civilisational lovely spark-sincerity-truth.FFF.
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Welcome aboard Antonia!Your participation here,your knowledge of Greek&Latin,we salute of course!Smile
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Ehm, I will take the final post as a serious question and anwer. The "t" in those two words comes from two different words of the greek language. 
Istanbul= Is(to) + tan(the)[tan is the Accusative of the female article "tin"] + bul(polis,as you correctly said).
Sevastopol= Sevasti (respected) + pol(is).

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İstanbul reminds me Sevastopol

blue parts came from word "polis"  but "t" ???
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...maternal lovely spark-sincerity-verity.
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First presence is embelished by maternal lovely spark.
First presence embelishes maternal lovely spark.Final Final form...Big smile
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Istanbul=The First Her presence beauties maternal,love and spark!Final form.
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Istanbul might even be Islampol or "city of Islam"
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ISLaM=First Her presence wings interior!Big smile
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Many a culture had thought they carry civilization to the word, such thinking is nothing new or surprising, which doesn't make it objectively true.

Linguistically, the word "Islam" may really be part of the word "Istan-bul":
"... Turk. name of Constantinople, a corruption of Gk. phrase eis tan (ten) polin "into the city," which is how the local Gk. population referred to it. Picked up in Turkish 16c., though Turk. folk etymology traces the name to Islam bol "plenty of Islam." Gk. polis "city".."http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/istanbul
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I am really puzzle when I was reading that's comment because there are so many wrong information about the istanbul and turkish people . the firstly I would like to clarify what is meaning of the istanbul. ottoman empire was leadership of the islam civilisation and after the ottoman conquer to constantinople , they called the istanbul instead of constantinople . why did they call the istanbul , what is the meaning of the istanbul . meaning of the istanbul is magnificent islam in the this city etc. and also the turkish people carried whole of the centurys civilisation to world . that 's why  most of the leadership said so many captivating say to turkish....
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The First Her presence beauties mother's love and spark/sparks!I still have not solved one syllable over basic  five syllables structure!But differences do not influence content of sentence!Is it spark or sparks?Will see further from words i have received in forum.
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From The First Her presence,mother's beauty,kisses spark!Goddess of Earth kisses sun light here from the very beginning as it looks!At least i am logical."IST" structure is very new for me but will solve it.ALL changes will
be published here.It is NaDeNaJVe,world wide known as Danayans,"people of Troy"...We say ISTOK/O for East side of the world!Word speaks about Sun's shelter!


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I didnt know that Istanbul is a persian word but it makes kinda sense actually... Intan being land and bul=bol which is pronounced pol in modern persian.... hihi baghdad and Iraq are also persian words,,, so is syria (suri ye) and astana :O 

Edited by shayan - 10-Oct-2006 at 10:52
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Still arguing over this? jeeeez this has already been debated over and over again.

Istanbul was called so many names,

Neu Roma, Micklegard, Tsargrad, Costa, Kushta, Astana, Pay-i-Taht, Islambol, Konstantinniye and so on, all these names were used by different people. The Ottomans used, Islambol, Konstantinniye, Astana.

The theory that Fatih the Conquerer heard a few Greeks saying IN TO THE CITY and named it after this is laughably ridiculous, he did know the name of the city he was invading guys I mean come on     

Istanbul
Islambul

Another likely explanation, being its a Persian word, Land Bridge you know it connects Asia to Europe.

Oh and by the way, there were no "Greeks" in those times, there were "Rum"-"Romans", that's how the people saw themselves at the time, if they called themselves Greek, the Turks would have called them Greek.

Still Turks call Christian people like Greeks, Venetians, Geneoese in Western Turkey "Rum" only Greeks in Greece are called "Yunan".

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The city was known as Islambol, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise how logical it is for it to have such a name.

Why was it changed?

Umm, there was a revolution, the Ottoman Establishment overthrown, the old capitol was moved and to weaken its power and get away from it being the centre of the Capiphate aswell as to secularise, the name Istanbul was adopted.


Did a similar thing happen in Kos?

Similar examples of modern Turkish placenames derived from Greek in 
this fashion are Izmit, earlier Iznikmit, from Greek Nicomedia, Iznik from
Greek Nicaea ([iz nikea]), Samsun (s'Amison = "se + Amisos"), and
Istanky for the Greek island Kos (from is tin Ko). 
The occurrence of the initial i- in these names may partly reflect the old Greek form 
with is-, or it may partly be an effect of secondary epenthesis due to the
phonotactic structure of Turkish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_%28etymology%29

or maybe that too was Islamkoy!
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Byzantium in Roman times.

Constantinople in Byzantine times.

Konstantaniyya in Ottoman times.

Stin poli(Istanbul) in Greek which means into the city in modern day.
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everyone is Greek and think that is something else
 
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Originally posted by Neoptolemos

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'Greeks are Turks who think they are Italians'
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