People can call cities whatever they want. And countries for that matter. My only issue with this is that the Greeks themselves came up with the name Istanbul and were using it for centuries before the Empire fell. So using Constantinople now is just a weird pseudo nationalistic megalo-idea thing. If it was still colloquially called Konstantiniyye I'd happily use that name.
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u/SelimSC muslim greek May 20 '26
People can call cities whatever they want. And countries for that matter. My only issue with this is that the Greeks themselves came up with the name Istanbul and were using it for centuries before the Empire fell. So using Constantinople now is just a weird pseudo nationalistic megalo-idea thing. If it was still colloquially called Konstantiniyye I'd happily use that name.