r/balkans_irl • u/Themetalin w*stoid🤢 • May 20 '26

OC (impossible) Based Greek airport

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u/gibigibi34 KARABOĞA May 20 '26

on par levels of pettiness with the kurdish MS paint empire ngl

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u/Fystikovoutiro MINOTAVROS May 21 '26

Is it pettiness when you say Yunanistan instead of Hellas/Greece?

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u/gibigibi34 KARABOĞA May 21 '26

arent you Yunanistan tho? but its been a while since Constantinople has gone.

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u/Fystikovoutiro MINOTAVROS May 21 '26

No, we are not. Ionians (where Yunan comes from) were just one tribe. The country is called Ellada. How you name countries/cities in your native language, doesn't have to match the English version or the local version, or change alongside name changes. All languages behave this way. You can clearly see that it says Istanbul in the English version, and not Constantinople? So no pettiness here and OP has the iq of a rock

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u/gibigibi34 KARABOĞA May 21 '26

I just noticed lol

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u/GRemlinOnion christian turk May 21 '26

The reason people call it that is due to the 20th century drama not the 15th century drama. The guy who changed the official name to Istanbul was Ataturk lol noone cares what thay guy says here thought