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Originally posted by Molossos What is istanbul?

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you 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


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Edited by Komnenos

I thought this was an English speaking forum so that I wouldn't have to understand terms and words used in foreign languages. In the same fashion that us Greeks call our glorious capital Athens when we speak English and not Athina, which is the real name of the city.

Originally posted by Molossos What is istanbul?

�stanbul is a three Headed monster that spits fire.(eheheheheheheh)

I don't get your comments and lyrics against the proper name of Constantinople either. Moreover, I don't think you are from Svalbard island since you provoke regarding this issue even more than Turks.

I don't really wish to recapture Constantinople under these conditions because we have no jurisdiction (moral) to conquer lands that are not inhabited by our Greek brothers. I support a dynamic operation to kick the Turks out of the island of Cyprus. It's in the eastern Mediterranean for your information. By the way, the original names of places in Turkey were changed by Kemal's regime after he abolished the imperial rule.

So, your statements regarding the 550 year long existence of these names are false. Take a look at older maps and articles of the 20th CENTURY about it and you will find out how wrong you are.

A good link to enlighten you as well is this one: http://www.sephardicstudies.org/istanbul.html

OK Abdul .

Originally posted by Molossos OK Abdul .

Abdul is not a Turkish name.

Originally posted by Molossos I don't really wish to recapture Constantinople under these conditions because we have no jurisdiction (moral) to conquer lands that are not inhabited by our Greek brothers. I support a dynamic operation to kick the Turks out of the island of Cyprus. It's in the eastern Mediterranean for your information. By the way, the original names of places in Turkey were changed by Kemal's regime after he abolished the imperial rule. So, your statements regarding the 550 year long existence of these names are false. Take a look at older maps and articles of the 20th CENTURY about it and you will find out how wrong you are. A good link to enlighten you as well is this one: http://www.sephardicstudies.org/istanbul.html

Have you ever been to Turkey?Or know anything abut Turkey?Because everything you wrote was ceartainly false.And your Cyprus plan was not realistic.�n other words,�'d like to see you try!

Originally posted by Molossos OK Abdul .

Abdul is an Arabic name. Also Istanbul doesnt mean "to the city". Ottomans were not that ignorant to call their capital in a name that they have seen while moving their armies to conquer the Eastern Roman Empire. Istanbul is a Persian name for "land bridge".

I think you have some inferiority complex. Get a life, live the moment. Constantinopole is Istanbul since 1453. Get used to it. A city belongs to ones who has its cultural dominiance, political authority and ethnic population in it, not its past owners of 550 years before now...