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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.
Why they changed it, I can’t say.
People just liked it better that way!
So take me back to Constantinople!
What’s interesting is that the name “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.
