Origins of the name "Istanbul"

Istanbul=The First Her presence beauties maternal,love and spark!Final form.

ISLaM=First Her presence wings interior!

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....

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!


Edited by medenaywe - 16-Jan-2012 at 11:45

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".

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.

Originally posted by Neoptolemos Originally posted by The Hidden Face 'Greeks are Turks who think they are Italians' Hidden, did somebody hack your account?

turks in Turkey do not look like asian like central asian turks.why we are   a piece of roman,a piece of slav,a piece of greek,a piece of persian,a piece of caucasian,a piece of armenian,a piece of hitit,a piece of phrygian,a piece of who lived in this land(balkans,anatolia,caucasia,north africa.)

in the some of the lonely planet tv series i have seen a scene.traveler was in south italy and she visited a far village close to Bari.She showed us a fontain.There was a tablet on the fountain written with the greek letters.

Because origin of the village coming form Greece.They stil speak in greek.but they are italian.

Originally posted by ageia alparslan greek and turkish culture are pretty different.they have common things that share,but greeks and italians have also common things that doesnt mean that their cultures are the same.

alparslan greek and turkish culture are pretty different.they have common things that share,but greeks and italians have also common things that doesnt mean that their cultures are the same.

oh and smth else greek language has turkish words but also has italian and lately english words too....all the languages of the world have many many greek words(not only turkish language)....




Edited by ageia - 29-Aug-2006 at 09:12